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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: == vs =
Message-ID: <7357@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 28 Feb 88 00:08:35 GMT
References: <11216@brl-adm.ARPA> <2111@chinet.UUCP> <4403@garfield.UUCP> <2727@mmintl.UUCP> <687@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <687@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>Telling me that what I want to do in part of my code can be done in
>FORTRAN, another part in PASCAL, another part in ..., where each part
>is a small number of lines, is stupid.

I suppose it would be -- who is telling you to do that?

>Do not restrict the programmer!

C's use of = for assignment and == for comparison does not restrict
the programmer.