The text of a paper published in the collection 'Formation of the Novosibirsk programming school. Mosaic of recollections"

on rejection of A.Ershov's, S.Pokrovsky's and G.Stepanov's paper "The Internal Language of a Multi-Language Optimizer".

in reply to the memo by M.Schwartzman - four remarks on the essence of the problem, and general belief that all the difficulties arizing during the project implementation can bee overpassed

for the staff of Ershov's and Pottosin's laboratories