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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What I'd really like to see in an if-statement...
Message-ID: <5566@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 7 Aug 89 12:14:23 GMT
References: <5024@alvin.mcnc.org> <1300@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <456@helios.prosys.se>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <456@helios.prosys.se>, ath@helios.prosys.se (Anders Thulin) writes:
> In article <1300@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (John Hascall) writes:
> -     To answer your other question, COBOL is a bad idea.

> BCPL isn't.

BCPL wasn't, once upon a time. At this late date, BCPL is. If you really
WANT a typeless C, the Ron Cain small-C is much more regular, and avoids
stuff like the global vector.
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