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Re:Programming language notation is a barrier to entry by 082349872349872 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @08:44AM (#24650223)
1968 on adopting standard notation: https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/002/76...

(judging by the picture of Susie at her desk, development environments' handwriting recognition was awesome in 1968, which explains Landin's 1966 comment in Next 700:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf p. 160

> "[The offside rule] is based on vertical alignment, not character width, and hence is equally appropriate in handwritten, typeset or typed texts.")

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