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From: dsb@Rational.COM (David S. Bakin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "for" loops in C ...
Summary: Older and wiser, I now C the truth.
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Date: 10 Nov 88 23:07:15 GMT
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In-reply-to: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)

Well I've read several responses to my innocent and IMHO reasonable 
"assertion" that C's << operator was a left shift.  All pointed out
that it is a machine-dependent left shift and deliberately so in the
name of efficiency.

This means two things to me.  First, I have to reread the C manuals
I have verrry carefully.  And second, my original opinion was right:
C is no more than an assembly language with extra whitespace and
slower language translators.  :-)

-- Dave

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