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From: "Dann Corbit" <a-cnadc@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn
 C or Pascal?]
Date: 1996/09/26
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It's the successor to the object.
Dennis probaly loved to play the peano.
(I'm not really a mathematician,
my degree is in Numerical Analysis)
;-)
-- 
"I speak for myself and all of the lawyers of the world"
If I say something dumb, then they will have to sue themselves.


Jon S Anthony <jsa@alexandria> wrote in article
<JSA.96Sep26151720@alexandria>...
> In article <Dy9KEL.6nD@research.att.com> bs@research.att.com (Bjarne
Stroustrup) writes:
> 
> > Actually, the story that ++ comes from the PDP11 instruction
> > set is a myth. Dennis Ritchie has denied it quite often, but
> > that doesn't seem to impress people. ++ is in C and C++ because
> > Dennis (being a mathematician) considered it a fundamental
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > (and useful) operation. It was in the PDP11 instruction set
> 
> I don't see how that has anything to do with it.  I'm a mathematician
> and I don't see it as a particularly interesting or useful operation
> to be singled out for special status (I'm not talking about the machine
> level here...)
> 
> /Jon
> 
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