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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Third public review of X3J11 C
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Date: 2 Sep 88 14:16:41 GMT
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In article <908@l.cc.purdue.edu>, cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
 
> A language should be easy to read and as easy to write as possible.  The
> kludges made in PL/1 to allow the use of the properties of the machine were
> to use the common assembler notation, which while it is precise, is difficult
> to read and write.

Would you mind explaining this a little more?

I don't understand what you're trying to say.
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				--Andrew Koenig
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