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From: sde@Mitre-Bedford
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Subject: Re: The wonders of C
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 12:25:17 EST
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Actually, there are those of who, disliking both the "="/"==" closeness
and the "!="/"|=" closeness, use "EQ" for "==" and "NE" for "!=", which
C allows by means of #define.

David	sde@mitre-bedford

P.S. I do, however, agree that it was ergonomically foolish to count
relative uses of assignment vs. comparison to come up with =/== instead
of :=/=. How many hours of debug time (and how many debug keystrokes)
does it take, after all, to use up the marginal saving of some keystrokes in
initial entry?