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From: jeffa@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Jeff Aguilera)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: grep vs. SEARCH (Was Re: Software Development Tools)
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Date: 2 May 89 21:52:21 GMT
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>>Knuth made a wrong assumption:  That the use of an otherwise clause in
>>the case statement was portable.

    "(Of course, if no default mechanism is available, the case statements
    of TeX will have to be laboriously extended by listing all remaining
    cases.  People who are stuck with such Pascals have, in fact, done this,
    successfully but not happily!)"

            --- Donald Knuth
                "TeX: The Program"

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