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12 @title GNU Task List | |
5120 | 13 @author Free Software Foundation |
5119 | 14 @author last updated @value{lastupdate} |
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19 @top GNU Task List |
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29 * Highest Priority:: |
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30 * Documentation:: |
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31 * Unix-Related Projects:: |
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32 * Kernel Projects:: |
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33 * Extensions:: |
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37 * Other Projects:: |
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38 * Languages:: |
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48 list is available there in several different formats: @file{tasks.text}, |
18588 | 49 @file{tasks.texi}, @file{tasks.info}, and @file{tasks.dvi}. The GNU |
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52 The task list is also available on the GNU World Wide Web server: |
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57 send you the GNU coding standards. |
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60 tools or programming languages, we have a comparative shortage of | |
61 applications useful for non-programmer users. Therefore, we ask you to | |
62 consider writing such a program. | |
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69 community more, in the long run, than porting existing programs. One |
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77 appreciate it very much, if they use it; but even when they benefit from |
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492 @uref{http://www.startech.keller.tx.us/xbase/xbase.html} may contain | |
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515 Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs, | |
516 Ronald M. Baecker and Aaron Marcus, | |
517 Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10745-7 | |
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569 @c Chris Hofstader is working on this. |
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712 Space war, Asteroids, Pong, Columns. | |
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728 Watchmaker}). |
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730 A program to display effects of moving at relativistic speeds. | |
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734 We do not need @code{rogue}, as we have @code{hack}. | |
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736 @contents | |
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738 @bye | |
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