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Article #3121Re: Algol68
From: John D. Burger
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 20:54
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 20:54
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mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
Real Programmers (TM) are not masochists and seldom are Real Typists
(TM) and simply HATE to type for the most common construct in any
program the loathsome, redundant, hard to type, piece of shit:
:=
Gee, you'd realy hate Common Lisp:
(SETF X 4)
instead of
x=4;
or even
x:=4;
BTW, this is certainly not "the most common construct in any program"
that I write. I rarely do explicit assignment at all.
--
John Burger john@mitre.org
"You ever think about .signature files? I mean, do we really need them?"
- alt.andy.rooney
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