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From: George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: A tiny self-hosting compiler used for teaching
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Hi John,

>[Your moderator has only limited sympathy for arguments about the aesthetics of
>declarations, noting a strong pattern of people liking what they learned first.
>Personally, I think Fortran EQUIVALENCE and COMMON statements are totally
>intuituitive, but then I would. -John]

Understood.

It was meant more to be a question of what was being done in the
author's language.  I thought it needed a bit of background -
apologies if that went too far astray.

George