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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Programming
Message-ID: <4081@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 22 Oct 88 10:05:02 GMT
References: <339@mozart.UUCP> <1735@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <6154@june.cs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <6154@june.cs.washington.edu> pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:
|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.

That's not nearly as great as my problem. I need a FOR loop that uses
Japanese art-films for its indices. Maybe I should switch to SPL?