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From: mroot@atl.mindspring.com (Danette & Murray Root)
Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
Date: 1996/04/21
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Date: 1996-04-21T00:00:00+00:00
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on 20 Apr 1996 15:55:36 GMT, Bradd W. Szonye <bradds@ix.netcom.com> wrote:


=>encourage the code that works under all circumstances. Consider:

=>for (size_t i = 0; i < 10; i++) do_stuff();

=>versus

=>for (size_t i = 0; i != 10; i++) do_stuff();

while the gist of your diatribe made sense, this was silly.
Any 'programmer/software engineer/title of your choice' who can't tell the
difference between 'not equal' and 'is less than' is a moron, and deserves
his fate.