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Professor V. Dahl
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Facultad de ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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@greeting(Dear Professor Dahl:)
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No, I did not find your letter too informal.  My problem was simply
that I had been indecisive about whether I could undertake to arrange
something and was disappointed that I could not.
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Best regards.




John McCarthy
Professor of Computer Science





@flushleft(P. S.  I liked what you told me about constructive data bases and have
been using the idea to enlarge peoples' concepts of what data base programs should
be able to do.)