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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Language Tenets (was Re: Double Width Integer Multiplication and Division
Message-ID: <605@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Jul 89 16:22:57 GMT
References: <57125@linus.UUCP> <1989Jun24.230056.27774@utzoo.uucp> <1207@quintus.UUCP> <1406@l.cc.purdue.edu> <2568@etive.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <1207@quintus.UUCP>, pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
> There's a big problem with this:  you have an expression that's no good
> for anything but putting on the right side of an assignment.  What good
> are expressions if you can't nest them?

What good is Prolog?