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From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: IF KICK-BACK GREATER THAN 10 AND LESS THAN 100 THEN ...
Message-ID: <6172@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 08:36:36 EST
Article-I.D.: mcvax.6172
Posted: Mon Nov 12 08:36:36 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Nov-84 01:31:09 EST
References: <440@ima.UUCP>
Reply-To: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
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Summary: 

In article <440@ima.UUCP> johnl@godot.UUCP writes:
>PS:  How many other languages let you write:
>
>	IF KICK-BACK GREATER THAN 10 AND LESS THAN 100 THEN ...
>
>without having to mention kick-back twice?  They don't design them like they
>used to.  Probably just as well.

Oh yes.  This language of ours, in which we have put every possible
effort to save the user's time and not the computer's, allows this:

	IF 10 < kick'back < 100: ...

It's about twice as short as the COBOL, and more readable, too!

--
	Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out COBOL" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam, Holland
	guido@mcvax.UUCP

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