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maney at pobox.com maney at pobox.com
Mon Nov 25 15:05:56 EST 2002


David Brown <david at no.westcontrol.spam.com> wrote:
> correctness.  This particular "feature" is a huge source of bugs and
> frustration in C programming - mixing up "=" and "==" in conditions is
> probably the biggest single cause of C program bugs.  Python, on the other

Are you speaking from experience, or is this as well-founded as the
hysterical wails about how Python's use of indentation is just wrong? 
It certainly isn't remotely near my own experience (which covers a bit
more than two decades, during much of which C was used more than
anything else).



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