Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: how has C bitten you? Message-ID: <711@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 04:46:21 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.711 Posted: Thu Aug 15 04:46:21 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:53:27 EDT References: <302@brl-tgr.ARPA> <4081@alice.UUCP> <243@ecrhub.UUCP> <123@ecsvax.UUCP> <389@phri.UUCP> <166@mips.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 8 > if (sv > score); <----- note extraneous semi-colon > score = sv; This sort of thing makes me think that a few extra keywords are called for programming languages like this. E.g. if then fi while do od Something to keep in mind when you design an Algol-like language.