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Subject: Re:  typedefs, etc. - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 5-Jan-84 04:58:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  5 04:58:13 1984
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From:      Ron Natalie <ron@brl-vgr>

@"#@%`*@ pinko computer science freaks...
Every hacker knows there is really only one data type--integer (in C "int").
Booleans are just wedged in there.  Real Fortran programmers have been
rounding integers by adding results of ".AND." to their INTEGER variables.
C just legitimizes this.  No real programmer uses floating point, too
ineffecient (he does this even on machines like HEP which compute
floating point faster than they do integers).  He just approximates by
using fixed integers again.  Characters are just integers made smaller.
Again, the real programmer null-terminates his strings with a "0" not a
"'\0'" or "NULL".  Everyone knows that space is 40(base 8) in ASCII and
40(base 16) in EBCDIC and ASCII characters less than 32 are no printing.
Don't forget that character constants in C are integers!

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