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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Software landmines (was: Why C++ is successful)
Date: 1998/08/25
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In article <6rsg0d$pcj@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>,
  Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>  statements.  In fact, I sometimes see people programming around the
>  assignment by parenthetical nesting of function returns and find it
>  confusing, reminsicent of the German sentences of philosophers who,
>  in an attempt to extract every nuance from an idea without leaving any
>  possibility for misinterpretation, along with, what seems to be an
>  attempt to avoid using an excessive number of periods in their sentences,
>  construct long, dependent clause-filled sentences, the effect of which
>  is to leave one, if, in fact, one is still reading, without any sense
>  of what the original idea might have been from the beginning.

Wow. You even write self-documenting prose. :-)

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