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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Subject: Unix source code readability
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Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 15:54:24 EDT
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Summary: Admitted, but look at the source

Expires:

Consider that various Unices were written by (1) grad students or (2)
people who REALLY DIDN'T INTEND that the code become public (SysV is a
modified SysIII which is a modified V7, the code is probably largely
identical).

I could show you readable code, but anyone who thinks Ada is THE answer
probably has too much of a bias -- he would not even try.  (I dislike
most C-isms, so my code is fairly clean and lacking in most
non-intuitive constructs such as ``x = 5, y = 3;'' and the use of &&
such that (x && y) doesn't evaluate y if x is false.)

(BTW, Ada is too big.  Did nobody learn the lesson of PL/I?  Tasking
BUILT INTO THE LANGUAGE, when it's not an object-type language!?  I
fully expect problems on that one. . .)

--bsa
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