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∂AILProf. John W. Carr III↓Moore School↓University of Pennsylvania↓Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104∞

Dear John:

	In connection with thinking about the history of programming languages
and the problem of making better ones, I remember my old view that the
ALGOL Committee didn't do what it set out to do.  Instead of making a standard
language for numerical computations, it became a collective vehicle for self-expression
by the members of the Committee.  I think this also happened to other
committee projects to develop languages.

	In that connection, I recall that when you were President of ACM, you gave
the American delegation to the Committee some instructions.  Do you have any
record of what they were?

.reg