Nonsense in BYTE reader columns

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Fri Jun 20 04:15:35 AEST 1986


In article <827 at minster.UUCP> nigel at minster.UUCP (nigel) writes:
>The apporach of 'sugaring' C is not unusual - have you looked at the source
>code for sh?

Practically every UNIX system programmer I know couldn't STAND
Bourne's pseudo Algol-68 (also used in "adb").  Fortunately
this was fixed in SVR2 (I think Dave Korn did the clean-up).

>This looks more like FORTRAN that Pascal ... now that I do take exception to.

If you want Pascal, use Pascal.  Not looking like Pascal is not
a language deficiency!



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