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Article #5748Re: Many people's opinions on computer languages (was: Third public review of X3J11 C)
From: Jeff Dalton
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1988 18:56
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1988 18:56
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In article <1386@garth.UUCP> smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes: >The lack of a boolean mode and the requirement that >&& and || shortcircuit are horrendous on a RISC. How is this different from saying "if is horrendous on a RISC"? That is what I'd have to write if not for && and ||. .
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!aiva!jeff From: jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Many people's opinions on computer languages (was: Third public review of X3J11 C) Message-ID: <585@aiva.ed.ac.uk> Date: 15 Sep 88 18:56:24 GMT References: <8365@smoke.ARPA> <225800053@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <8374@smoke.ARPA> <340@quintus.UUCP> <910@l.cc.purdue.edu> <8695@ihlpb.ATT.COM> <1386@garth.UUCP> Reply-To: jeff@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Jeff Dalton) Organization: Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Lines: 8