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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] More Microsoft bashing
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:46:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76e2892066e5eabb458fcec1702692dc@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <775b8d190512152138g7ffaa837oe193f1556392a721@mail.gmail.com>

it's an old argument and at one time the choice of definition was
almost a function of which side of the atlantic defined the language
or processor.

Ada compromised by providing both operations--
there's always room for one more--
calling them `mod' and `rem', with nothing left to chance.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-16 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-16  4:04 Jack Johnson
2005-12-16  4:51 ` Dan Cross
2005-12-16  5:02   ` Dan Cross
2005-12-16  5:33     ` erik quanstrom
2005-12-16  5:38       ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-16 10:46         ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2005-12-16 13:13       ` Dan Cross
2005-12-16  4:53 ` erik quanstrom
2005-12-16  5:08   ` Dan Cross
2005-12-16  5:19     ` Brian L. Stuart
2005-12-16  5:27     ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-16 14:19     ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-16 15:13       ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-16 15:29         ` Russ Cox
2005-12-16 16:00           ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-17  0:26             ` Jack Johnson
2005-12-17  3:59               ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-16 15:33         ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-16 10:47   ` John Stalker
2005-12-16 14:25     ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-16 14:51       ` Gorka guardiola
2005-12-16 22:28     ` Victor Nazarov
2005-12-17 11:09 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-17 11:24   ` David Leimbach

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