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From: rdp@teddy.UUCP
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Subject: Re: HARRIS FLAME Re: SHORT vs. INT
Message-ID: <1297@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 15:15:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 11 15:15:35 1985
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Reply-To: rdp@teddy.UUCP (Richard D. Pierce)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Summary: 

In article <2778@sun.uucp> guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
>If people were as careless at using, say, saws as they were at using the C
>programming language, the rate at which people lost fingers in their
>workshops would be a national disgrace.

Actually, many people do use saws with the same care that many programmers 
use C, and the resulting loss-of-digit statistics are, indeed, disgraceful. 
The exact figures are, however, something I can't immediately put my finger on.