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Date: 2 Jun 93 19:08:46 GMT
From: rational.com!bonnie!rlk@uunet.uu.net  (Robert Kitzberger)
Subject: Re: Learning C and C++
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dewar@schonberg.NYU.EDU (Robert Dewar) writes:

>Often we scorn people who write
>language X in the style of Y, but actually I think this is an excellent idea
>when X=C and Y=Ada. 

I agree, as long as accepted coding practices of the 'new' language aren't
abused.  For example, I've seen cases where the C preprocessor was used
to make C code look like Pascal:

#define BEGIN {
#define END }
...etc...

The resultant code is only attractive and maintainable to the person 
that wrote it.  

	.Bob.
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