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- From: meyer@dbsun.uucp (Don Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.112944.20996@dbsun.uucp>
- Organization: BioMerieux-Vitek, St. Louis Mo.
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- In article <2!ln9fc@lynx.unm.edu> john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice) writes:
- [ re: C++ and complex numbers ]
- >Fortunately, you wouldn't need to because the designers were not brain
- >dead enough to leave in out in the first place :-) .
-
- 'C' was intended as more of a systems language, in which case complex
- numbers aren't usually needed. C++ extends C without any particular
- bias towards features for specific applications areas. The philisophy
- of extending the language via librarys (which can function quite as
- nicely as built-in features) is a sound one.
- I would hardly characterize this _considered choice_ as "brain-dead".
-
- Don
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