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Archive up to end of 2008

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page or via email. Thanks and happy editing, [ælfəks] 07:29, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

ALGOL 58 and the others
I saw your comment, and have been wanting to work with someone to tidy up the ALGOL page. You will see I have posted several suggestions over time, but have been a bit reluctant to implement these suggestions. Maybe you can feed back on these?

re: ALGOL 58 I have never used it, not sure if it is a draft/spec or if it ever was a compiler. I would have imagined that it - as IAL - deserves a web page, and even the retrospective name ALGOL-58. If it was only a draft, then this should be indicated. I will check the Algol Bulletin of the time.

NevilleDNZ (talk) 09:49, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello
Yes, looking in the wrong place wasn't helping - you were easy to find once I stopped doing so. I must have just misremembered our conversation. A shame; I would have liked to have contacted you unexpectedly. Olaf Davis | Talk 20:51, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Rainer Kurt Sachs
Hello. I'm afraid I removed myself from this page, since I think I'm pretty solidly non-notable even for one-sentence inclusion in his article. Perhaps in ten years that won't be the case! Olaf Davis | Talk 23:04, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Comment on moving "Anglo-Saxons"
I have made a comment on Talk:Anglo-Saxon about your moving of "Anglo-Saxons" to "Anglo-Saxon". I have read your remarks headed "My Wiki-editing style", and I accept you may not wish to go back to read my comment,but I thought I would let you know in case you are interested. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:47, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. I've responded on the talk-page.  SilkTork  *YES! 23:27, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

I replied
at Talk:Topological group.

Topology Expert (talk) 17:46, 7 December 2008 (UTC)