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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: entry at other than main (was w
Message-ID: <10731@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 24 Aug 89 02:02:23 GMT
References: <19173@mimsy.UUCP> <207600032@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <19218@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: diamond@riks. (Norman Diamond)
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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In article <19218@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:

>...  Does not SNOBOL IV evaluate right-to-left?  ...

Thank you Dr. Torek, for making the rest of us mere mortals feel better.

APL is the infamous right-to-left language.  (APL hackers know that
theirs is the only correct language, because right-to-left prioritizing
is the same as in English.  Well, maybe that's no worse than the
attitudes of the defenders of other programming languages.  At least
Snobol did not pretend to be the language to end all languages, nor did
its users try to turn it into one.)

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