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From: nigel@minster.UUCP (nigel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Nonsense in BYTE reader columns
Message-ID: <837@minster.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Jun-86 18:22:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 25 18:22:02 1986
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In article <1502@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <827@minster.UUCP> nigel@minster.UUCP (nigel) writes:
>>The apporach of 'sugaring' C is not unusual - have you looked at the source
>>code for sh?
>
>Practically every UNIX system programmer I know couldn't STAND
>Bourne's pseudo Algol-68 (also used in "adb").  Fortunately
>this was fixed in SVR2 (I think Dave Korn did the clean-up).
>

Read my original article carefully; I pass no comment on the readability of
sh - merely that sugaring was used.

>>This looks more like FORTRAN that Pascal ... now that I do take exception to.
>
>If you want Pascal, use Pascal.  Not looking like Pascal is not
>a language deficiency!

Looking like FORTRAN is. A Pascal programmer moving over to C does not need
help with comprehension of operators such as <=, as they occur in Pascal.