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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Programming
Message-ID: <6154@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 21 Oct 88 01:15:44 GMT
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jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
]dlbaer@mozart.UUCP (Dennis L. Baer ) wrote:
]> PROGRAMMERS,try the Structured Programming Language and you will have an
]> opportunity to switch to a language that is better than PASCAL and C...
|> Why SWITCH to SPL? Here are the reasons! ...
] 
]> SPL has better FOR loops with INTEGER and REAL indicies and increments.
]
]:-)  You mean I can't use complex numbers to index an iteration?    :-)
]:-)  For shame!  This language obviously still needs some work...   :-)

Oh, you think that you have problems.  Gee, I can't use structures and
datatypes as array inidicies.  That's a real problem for me.

	;-D on  ( Or operators.  Geez! )  Pardo
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In article <1735@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
>
>dlbaer@mozart.UUCP (Dennis L. Baer ) wrote:
>
>> PROGRAMMERS,try the Structured Programming Language and you will have an
>> opportunity to switch to a language that is better than PASCAL and C...
>> Why SWITCH to SPL? Here are the reasons! ...
> 
>> SPL has better FOR loops with INTEGER and REAL indicies and increments.
>
>:-)  You mean I can't use complex numbers to index an iteration?    :-)
>:-)  For shame!  This language obviously still needs some work...   :-)
>
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