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From: "Steven Miale" <smiale@cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Comparing syntaxes  (Re: What language would you use?)
Message-ID: <1994Nov11.155916.7541@news.cs.indiana.edu>
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In article <3a0f2i$p6s@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU>,
Tom Christiansen  <tchrist@mox.perl.com> wrote:
>You should go back and read some of the reasons for why C existed, and
>what it was optimized for.  Remeber how small a memory it had to run in.

I fail to see why restrictions that existed 20 years ago should dictate
current language design.

A computer no longer costs more than a programmer.

Steve


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Steven Miale  <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/smiale.html>
