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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Algol68
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Date: 22 Mar 91 18:10:21 GMT
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In article <1991Mar22.153944.1096@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
> For a VERY simple reason: Real Programmers (TM) are not masochists
> and seldom are Real Typists (TM) and simply HATE to type for the
> most common construct in any program the loathsome, redundant,
> hard to type, piece of shit:

>    :=

Funny, that's one of the two syntactical changes I'd love to make to C.

The other is to change pointer indirection to a postfix operator.

These two features are responsible for the vast majority of coding errors
in C. Wouldn't you prefer:

	void signal()^();
To:
	void (*signal())();

?????
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