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From: jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Excerpts from "The C Programming Language" (Re: C bashing)
Message-ID: <791@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 28 May 90 20:13:28 GMT
References: <2426@psuhcx.psu.edu> <233@mcosm.uucp> <7937@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Reply-To: jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins)
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In article <7937@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> kassover@jupiter.crd.ge.com (David Kassover) writes:
>I would think that if someone wanted to build a sharp tool, one
>would also want to keep the edges away from the handles.  IMO,
>Ada helps this more than C does.

Yeah, by enclosing the knife in a tough leather sheath and prohibiting the
removal of the knife from the sheath without ruining the knife.  Why do these
ADA/C/Pascal flame wars always crop up here?  Do we go into the ADA group and
flame their language?  I don't, I don't even subscribe to the damn thing.
Why don't they stay where they belong and leave us real programmers alone?


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jim		jharkins@sagpd1

I *still* don't know who killed Laura Palmer!