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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: SI Units - has Ada missed the boat?
Date: 24 Jul 2007 09:59:32 GMT
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On 2007-07-23, Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus+rm.tsoh@maps.futureapps.de>
wrote:

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|"[..]                                                                   |
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| In fact, I think that many problems in programming                     |
| with number types have origins in the tempting                         |
| similarity of ASCII symbols for computer arithmetic                    |
| and mathematical expressions on paper.                                 |
| [..]"                                                                  |
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You are too kind. Within the last twelve months, it was revealed in a
two part article in "C Vu" in which given answers to a programming
quiz conducted at a recent conference of the Association of C & C++
Users were summarized, that many (a minority, but still many)
programmers were unaware that * has higher precedence than binary +. I
am not kidding.

Sincerely,
Colin Paul Gloster