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Brainfuck. Progress is not a trivial language that can list all it's thousands of commands. So it seems very plain editor bias in persecuting Progress, which has a large worldwide community of developers and actually is used to generate revenue by thousands of companies. The editors seem to be unaware of embedded systems and value added resellers and how they work. I don't know what the Progress wiki looked like before but it had to be more than this.
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A more accurate comparison might be to the FOCUS article which contains no sources or references, mixes discussion with the article, etc. This might invalidate it in some eyes; but I think some knowledge is better than no knowledge at all. Apparently that is not a popular opinion on
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What I don't understand from this discussion is a comparison with a ridiculous trivial programming language that is listed in the WP called
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While I agree the article is not about C or Java, almost all programmers are aware of these two languages, and a comparison to one or the other is not uncommon. If someone is not a programmer, then they may think all languages are alike; a hint or suggestion that they are not doesn't seem to me to
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I have removed all the cra^H^H^Hstuff and started fresh. I'm in ABQ, and I doubt that we have a library large enough to have copies of
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they are archived, this was only 24.3kB. Some firefox users have reported issues above 30, however thats a side note. I don't have issue (and I doubt any one else will), just an fyi. It may however make it difficult for editors later to follow, how and why changes have been
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This has just gone from bad to worse. The new article REALLY DOES look like nothing more than a fluff piece. The old article had flaws, but this is not an improvement.
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Then get your pen in gear and do something about it. It's not fluff, it's accurate as far as it goes. Does it go far enough? Perhaps not. You're welcome to do better.
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