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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why I use C instead of fortran
Message-ID: <72@obie.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 88 07:18:17 GMT
References: <11440@brl-adm.ARPA> <3597@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU> <257@tolsun.oulu.fi> <7217@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: UinTech, Layton, UT
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Summary: And in C++...

In article <7217@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> There are many other types of number (and other mathematical objects)
> that neither language supports.  At least with C I can implement my
> own support for them.

And with C++, you can even make them look like a *real* (no pun
intended) data type, and define the standard operators for them (you
know, + - * / < > ==).

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