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From: ddb@ns.network.com (David Dyer-Bennet)
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Subject: Re: Just Wondering
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Date: 26 Apr 89 20:23:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: rob@raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu's message of 25 Apr 89 04:18:16 GMT

Rob@raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) writes:
>
>English != C
>
>A trained English reader does not a trained C programmer make, nor
>vice versa.

Certainly not; however, both activities are performed using words and
wordlike character groupings.  I maintain that it is silly for the 
new upstart activity (programming) to establish rules that are in
conflict with the rules of the old, established activity (reading).
This only makes it harder to learn C programming, and causes lingering
errors for years (or forever).
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