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From: woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: problems/risks ...
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Date: 11 Mar 90 01:19:24 GMT
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In article <300@isgtec.UUCP> robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert Osborne) writes:
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>I'm tired of people blithly saying that "such and such is dangerous,
>and hence should be removed from the language" when I need such

i agree.  if we followed everyboy's advice on what was dangerous in a 
programming language, we would all be programming in LISP.

read Abelson and Sussman for an example of someone who "protects"
programmers.

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