Re: Comments on proposed Eiffel language changes

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From: Robert Firth
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 17:55

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In article <2067@osc.COM> jgk@osc.osc.COM (Joe Keane) writes:

>...  In these languages, IMHO the next-best choice is to separate words
>with underscores in place of hyphens.  It does look a little strange to
>non-programmers, but it sure beats the alternatives.

Well, in my opinion, the best choice is to separate words with
spaces, as we do in English and as we did in Algol, back before
we started designing languages for the convenience of compilers
rather than the convenience of humans.

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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
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Subject: Re: Comments on proposed Eiffel language changes
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