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From: jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: NOT Educating FORTRAN programmers to use C
Message-ID: <14202@lambda.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 90 01:20:07 GMT
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From article <12576@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>, by dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek):
> In article <12950@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> res@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Rich Strebendt) writes:
... 
->  Also, it should also be kept in mind that,
->while it is fun to figure out how to optimize very exotic constructs,
->the most frequently occuring construct in any programming language is
->equivalent to the construct x += 1
> 
> Er, not quite *any* programming language.  I have been programming
> professionally in Prolog for the last five years, and I need to do
> this sort of thing maybe once or twice a year.

And, in functional languages you actually CAN'T do it.  Assignment itself
is illegal.

J. Giles