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From: "Chris Smith" <cdsmith@twu.net>
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"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> wrote ...
> Well that raises a whole can of worms - how the media, et alia are out
> screaming how we need all kinds of gun safety laws "to protect the
children"
> when in point of fact, more are killed every year in back yard swimming
> pools. The proper algorithm ought to be to sort on the number of deaths
per
> anum & get them in descending order.

Unfortunately, neither Ada nor awk nor Clarion nor Java not PL/1 nor VRML
are capable of solving this problem.  (Well, I've never heard of Clarion...
perhaps it can, but I doubt it).

Chris Smith