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From: shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: great quote about the "C" language
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Date: Mon, 5-Dec-83 17:42:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  5 17:42:59 1983
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A. Evans of BBN has probably never had to write real programs, or else
has brainwashed himself into supporting Ada.

If you don't think minimizing the number of reserved words is a good idea,
try Lisp.  At 1000 or more reserved words (the oblist), it's not always
easy to avoid stepping on things, and the results of a collision are usually 
quite mysterious.

As for the compiler "probably" doing the right thing, I don't think there's
*any* existing portable language in which the compiler can be guaranteed to
give consistent results - 36 bits is different from 32, no matter how you try
to disguise it...

						stan the lep hacker
						utah-cs!shebs