Re: Currant Bun

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From: George Ross
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In article <38885D53.CC943BCE@york.ac.uk>,
 Mark Tyndall <mrt102@york.ac.uk> writes:
>> C-family languages don't allow hyphens-as-identifiers of course,
>
>How the hell would I do subtraction?  Basic doesn't, Fortran doesn't. 
>Which (d*mn-fool) languages do?

COBOL?  "subtract thing-one from thing-two giving thing-three" (or something
like that anyway).
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From: gdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk (George Ross)
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/21
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