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From: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: The light dawns!
Message-ID: <4261@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 13:00:41 EST
Article-I.D.: videovax.4261
Posted: Thu Mar  5 13:00:41 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Mar-87 03:19:34 EST
References: <4389@brl-adm.ARPA> <7700@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
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In article <7700@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:

> . . .

> Why so?  I know of at least one language which explicitly says, right up
> front, that no such assumptions are allowed and the compiler is free to
> short-circuit anything it pleases.  This will affect programming style in
> small ways (in my view for the better), but it's not an unthinkable heresy.
> The language in question is Bliss, which has been quite successful in its
> limited niche.

> . . .

I have never used Bliss, but I *now* understand the reason for the cutesy
saying I have seen in some .signatures:

                         Bliss is ignorance!


					Steve Rice

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