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Subject: Re: if UNIX then USE_C ?? (was: Reasons for drop)
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Date: 14 Mar 90 18:19:10 GMT
References: <27187@cup.portal.com> <18175@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> <5563@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <184@trwacs.UUCP> <598@software.software.org>
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In article <598@software.software.org>, blakemor@software.org (Alex Blakemore
writes:
> 
> C has some elegance but why should the programmer have to remember
> when to use [] or () ?  just to make the compiler easier to write ?
> 

Well, heck, I thought it was because we wanted to distinguish arrays
from other constructs. (8-)  If you want to talk about making a compiler
easier to write, how about those semicolons in PASCAL?  Obviously, it
has created so much consternation and problems that Borland allows lots
of slack on where you can put the consarned things!  Then there is Ada.
Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead in writing a language that is so
big that in rivals Common LISP in size, and the writing of a compiler
for it is one of the major undertakings of the past decade.  Is there
REALLY a full-featured Ada compiler out there that has all the features
that it is supposed to have?

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