Dear all,
just to contribute also something to ROOTs summer theater:
A (meanwhile retired) contributor to CERNLIB once upon a time said:
"The only good thing about C is: it killed Pascal"
Nice summer time to everybody,
Otto
PS: Meanwhile we all get so many junk mails so I think my mail
above does not increase the fraction of rubbish significantly.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, cstrato wrote:
> Dear Justin
>
> Thank you for this extensive explanation.
> I forgot that C was not intended to be a high level language but
> something like a macro-assembler.
> BTW, around the same time N. Wirth has developed Pascal, which has its
> own operator for integer division, e.g. i := 150 div 100.
>
> Best regards
> Christian
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