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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Certified C compilers for safety-critical embedded systems
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:43:04 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.lang.ada, ... Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:

: It also confounds "ordinary" program
: editors that believe single quotes should come in matched pairs.

Like a VB editor?
How do "ordinary" program editors handle std::string s = "'"; ?
Or any string literal that has a single quote in it?
How about a < b?
Is it difficult to write Algol 60 programs in "ordinary" program
editors, then?

I think programming languages should not be designed solely
around the "beliefs" of "ordinary" program editors?


-- Georg