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From: pick@sdsu.UUCP (Dan Pick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: What makes occam so good?
Message-ID: <3621@sdsu.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 89 00:39:37 GMT
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Reply-To: pick@sdsu.UCSD.EDU (Dan Pick)
Organization: San Diego State University, Math/Sciences Dept.
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As a novice user of occam just getting my feet wet, I find it
irritating that the language doesn't include a character 
data type, and that all the I/O procedures included in the
userio library refer to reading, writing, and echoing 
parameters of type INT char.  These are muddy waters!