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Re: What is the BEST TECO in C available!!

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From: Paul Koning
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:20
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In article <1993Jan25.014604.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
|>Am I the only one who is suffering reality control failure at the sight of
|>"best", "C", and "TECO" in the one sentence? Surely there are limits...
|>
|>:-)
|>~Paul

What's the problem?  C and TECO are about equally legible, and have an
equally loose view of data typing.  Then again, with C you can write
programs that destroy themselves, and with TECO you cannot.  So I suppose
you could say that, compared to TECO, C is a low level language...

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Subject: Re: What is the BEST TECO in C available!!
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