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   Skywise to Joseph Gwinn   
   Re: Optical Design for all platforms   
   11 Feb 13 01:18:13   
   
   From: into@oblivion.nothing.com   
      
   Joseph Gwinn  wrote in news:joegwinn-   
   45855E.19315310022013@news.giganews.com:   
      
   > I think that one can still join.   
      
   It was just curiosity about the programming language.   
      
      
   > I'm pretty sure it was HP Basic, at least initially.  Things may have   
   > evolved since then.  But XBasic would have run into the objection as HP   
   > Basic.   
      
   What was the general objection? That it wasn't a common   
   enough language such as C?   
      
   Brian   
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