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From: jnixon@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (John F Nixon)
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Subject: Re: if UNIX then USE_C ?? (was: Reasons for drop)
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Date: 26 Feb 90 12:45:22 GMT
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kassover@jupiter.crd.ge.com (David Kassover) writes:
>Back to Ada vs. C.  Ada, as specified, does a rather complete job
                 ^
>of eliminating bugs caused by single character typos.  (Ref the
>DO statement problem)

Sorry, you must be thinking of FORTRAN (e.g., DO 100 I = 1.10), not C.
If c.l.a is going to be comparing languages, let's get them right.

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