Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!sunybcs!boulder!ccncsu!ncr-fc!chuckp From: chuckp@ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.com (Chuck Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Language principles Message-ID: Date: 8 Feb 90 16:59:34 GMT References: <490@dino.cs.iastate.edu> Sender: news@ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.COM Distribution: na Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO Lines: 20 In-reply-to: hascall@cs.iastate.edu's message of 2 Feb 90 21:29:25 GMT On 2 Feb 90 21:29:25 GMT, hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) said: John> Inside the front cover of "Principles of Programming Languages", John> by Bruce J. MacLennan is the list: ... John> ZERO-ONE-INFINITY: The only reasonable numbers are zero, one, and John> infinity. On most of the points I agree. However, this restriction seems a bit bizarre. It may be inelegant, but I admit to liking the raw mathematical power that comes from being able to express the number "42", for example. :-) Could you provide a bit more context to this? I have a nagging feeling I must be missing something. -- Chuck Phillips -- chuckp%ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.COM uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!chuckp%ncr-fc ccncsu.ColoState.EDU!chuckp%ncr-fc