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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Comparing syntaxes  (Re: What language would you use?)
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In article <39mq9a$930@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>,
Tom Christiansen  <tchrist@mox.perl.com> wrote:
> You could have something like:

>     $current_nice_value = -20;

> automatically do the right thing by making the setpriority system call on 
> systems that support it.

How do you feel about DCL?

This is the thing that drives me most insane in VMS. You never know what
the hell anything's doing, and what's the logic in "SET HOST" establishing
a LAT connection?
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