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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: grep vs. SEARCH (Was Re: Software Development Tools)
Message-ID: <6931@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 89 04:26:21 GMT
References: <58236@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
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In article <58236@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> leichter@CS.YALE.EDU (Jerry Leichter
(LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU)) writes:
>Can I reasonably assume that a user on a Unix system has access, somehow, to a
>usable Pascal compiler?  Don Knuth made the assumption that Pascal would be
>universally available when he developed TeX.

Knuth made a wrong assumption:  That the use of an otherwise clause in
the case statement was portable.

This has little to do with the UNIX versus VMS debate.  It does have
something to do with how not to write portable code.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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