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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 24 , Issue 2 (February 1981) table of contents

Pages: 75 - 83

Year of Publication: 1981

ISSN:0001-0782

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Charles Antony Richard Hoare

Oxford Univ., Oxford, England

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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