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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: equivalent to ATOI in ADA
Date: 4 Jan 2002 15:17:49 -0600
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In article <uofk97tj8.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>, Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> Just to be pedantic, there is no function, in any standard language
> library I know of, named "ATOI". There is one in ANSI C named "atoi".
> Since C is case-sensitive, that's clearly a different function :).
> 
> Hey, it's 2002. Let's start the year off right!

I am all in favor of doing things right, but it is too much work to get
all those C programmers to change their language to case-neutral.