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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Efficiency AND Readability
Message-ID: <1859@garth.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 88 01:10:53 GMT
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>                                                  There is also debate
>about whether WEB is really worthwhile; a couple of years ago in the
>Programming Pearls column in CACM, Knuth contributed a WEB example
>which Doug McIlroy really tore apart.

He attacked the algorithm, not so much the presentation.
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