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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: what "cast" means
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Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 13:08:58 EDT
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Re: not looking like Pascal is not a language deficiency

As originator of the original statement, I would like to thank
everyone for demonstrating how ridiculous a naive application
of propositional calculus can be.  The fact is, my statement
does not lend itself to accurate, useful rendition in such terms.
In fact, it is conveying multiple meanings simultaneously --
it is a refutation of the putative claim that "not looking like
Pascal IS a language deficiency"; it also is saying something
about what not-looking-like-Pascal signifies (or doesn't
signify):
	not-looking-like-Pascal is-not a-language-deficiency
All these attempts to formalize it lose at least some of its
meaning, which involves more than mere syntactic form.