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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Shell Scripts vs. C programs
- In-Reply-To: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of 2 Sep 92 08:54:23 GMT
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- NF> == Noah Friedman <friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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- NF> (using "unless" and violating the general condition->consequent
- NF> order of expression is evil, especially since this is not a fundamental
- NF> paradigm of the language).
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- There's a lot to be said for being able to optimize code for readability
- with that construct; I find myself writing stuff like this:
- &flameUser($loudly) unless $feeling_lenient;
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- NF> Incidentally, I have a public domain Scheme implementation
- NF> written in Perl. It's missing continuations among other things,
- NF> but it's still rather interesting... Anyone have any idea who wrote
- NF> it? There wasn't any author listed in the copy I found.
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- I think Felix Lee did that one. Ask in comp.lang.perl, or flee@cs.psu.edu.
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