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  1. Newsgroups: comp.arch
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sarah!cook!psinntp!psinntp!dg-rtp!robin!hamilton
  3. From: hamilton@robin.rtp.dg.com (Eric Hamilton)
  4. Subject: Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov19.142540.24877@dg-rtp.dg.com>
  6. Sender: hamilton@robin (Eric Hamilton)
  7. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 14:25:40 GMT
  8. References: <id.6S0V.FKH@ferranti.com> <Bxv2t2.4FH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Nov17.191938.16161@newshost.lanl.gov> <1992Nov17.203633.23955@sei.cmu.edu>
  9. Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
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  12. In article <1992Nov17.203633.23955@sei.cmu.edu>, firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
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  14. |> list all the problems!  What I'd like to add, though, is the comment
  15. |> that, in most of the situations where C got it wrong, its predecessor,
  16. |> BCPL, got it right...
  17. |> 
  18. Demonstrating, once again, that ornamentation is dangerous.
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