• Don (5/5) Sep 24 2008 I've noticed that on Walter's homepage, he says he created the ABEL
• Lars Ivar Igesund (10/15) Sep 24 2008 Are you looking at the wrong ABEL?
• Lars Ivar Igesund (9/25) Sep 24 2008 On other wikipedia entries, Walter Bright's article does not mention ABE...
• Don (3/19) Sep 24 2008 Aargh, you're right. It's just a funny coincidence that both are created...

Don <nospam nospam.com.au> writes:

I've noticed that on Walter's homepage, he says he created the ABEL 
programming language for Data I/O.
The Wikipeadia entry for ABEL says that it was invented by Walter Hill 
at HP labs. This seems to be from a 1989 book  by Canning.
Anyone want to fix this? (naturally adding a link to D).

Lars Ivar Igesund <larsivar igesund.net> writes:

Don wrote:

 I've noticed that on Walter's homepage, he says he created the ABEL
 programming language for Data I/O.
 The Wikipeadia entry for ABEL says that it was invented by Walter Hill
 at HP labs. This seems to be from a 1989 book  by Canning.
 Anyone want to fix this? (naturally adding a link to D).

Are you looking at the wrong ABEL?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Boolean_Expression_Language

vs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_(object-oriented_programming_language)

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
Dancing the Tango

Lars Ivar Igesund <larsivar igesund.net> writes:

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:

 Don wrote:
 
 I've noticed that on Walter's homepage, he says he created the ABEL
 programming language for Data I/O.
 The Wikipeadia entry for ABEL says that it was invented by Walter Hill
 at HP labs. This seems to be from a 1989 book  by Canning.
 Anyone want to fix this? (naturally adding a link to D).

 
 Are you looking at the wrong ABEL?
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Boolean_Expression_Language
 
 vs
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_(object-oriented_programming_language)
 

On other wikipedia entries, Walter Bright's article does not mention ABEL
(the article is very short all-in-all), and the Empire page does not
mention the D version.

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
Dancing the Tango

Don <nospam nospam.com.au> writes:

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
 Don wrote:
 
 I've noticed that on Walter's homepage, he says he created the ABEL
 programming language for Data I/O.
 The Wikipeadia entry for ABEL says that it was invented by Walter Hill
 at HP labs. This seems to be from a 1989 book  by Canning.
 Anyone want to fix this? (naturally adding a link to D).

 
 Are you looking at the wrong ABEL?
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Boolean_Expression_Language
 
 vs
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_(object-oriented_programming_language)
 

Aargh, you're right. It's just a funny coincidence that both are created 
by someone called Walter.