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Subject: Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"
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In article <b73cd7a7ab393f51bfaa18a9171086732bcc0bdf@i2pn2.org>,
dxf  <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 26/04/2025 2:34 am, Hans Bezemer wrote:
>> ...
>> Yeah, I have helped to make a proposal for PLACE and +PLACE - which never even made it to the voting stage.
>
>It's a nice symmetry.  OTOH the remaining vendors use APPEND and why should they change?
>

$+! was even earlier. It predates the IBM PC XT.
(Osborne, CP/M)

Groetjes Albert
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