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From: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: struct comparison
Message-ID: <622@philmtl.philips.ca>
Date: 25 Jul 89 19:55:58 GMT
References: <2874@solo3.cs.vu.nl> <1989Jul14.155312.2063@utzoo.uucp> <2266@auspex.auspex.com> <5210@ficc.uu.net> <2280@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn)
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In article <2280@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>.........If,
>say, experience with Ada indicates that they are frequently equivalent,
>and that people do use structure comparison heavily, that experience
>might, with some care, be applicable to C

I'm glad Ada has been mentioned, because that language demonstrates clearly the
problems when all things for all men are added to a language.

'C' adequately provides the basic tools you need to build your own pet version
of struct comparison, as well as most of the other things on your particular
wish-list.

'C' is already starting to suffer from committee-itis and library-itis.

Keep it lean...   keep it lean!!!
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