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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
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Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 19:39:50 +0100
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Date: 2007-02-03T19:39:33+01:00
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On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:54:53 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> A few weeks ago a colleague explained he always writes
> 
> if (expr == false)
> {
> 
> because a '!' can be hard to see. I told him he could always use
> 
> if (!!!expr)
> {

Funny, I am almost always write

   if (0 == expr)
   { 

(and "false", that's not C anyway! (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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