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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:25:15 -0500
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Good enough approximation for ape/pcc
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don't get me going.  i once worked on a cad product complete
with a c++ shell and a fortran middle (complete with holorith data
and gobs of computed gotos.)

crunchy on the outside and chewy in the center.

- erik

On Tue Apr 11 05:22:29 CDT 2006, andrew.simmons@monitorbm.co.nz wrote:
>  >limbo's ":=" works like that ...
>
>  >i := 0;    # declares i as in an int and assigns 0 to it
>  >r := ref Boo;    # declares r to be scarey
>
> Well yes, but didn't Fortran's "=" work like that well before limbo?
>
> C     DECLARE I AS AN INTEGER AND ASSIGN 0 TO IT
>         I=0
> C     DECLARE A TO BE A SCAREY FLOATING POINT NUMBER
>        A=666.0
>