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From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn
 C or Pascal?]
Date: 1996/08/07
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In article <tequila-0708960947140001@tequila.interlog.com>,
Mark Eissler <tequila@interlog.com> wrote:
>Obviously, someone that has no clue regarding things ASM won't be able to
>tell you if a certain "for" loop may be better implemented as a "while." 

Well, in C anyway, their semantics are different enough that there exist cases
where one is clearly a better way to express an algorithm.

-s
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