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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Nonsense in BYTE reader columns
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Date: Thu, 19-Jun-86 14:15:35 EDT
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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).

>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!