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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Re: Reading programs left-to-right. (LONG)
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Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 22:21:01 EDT
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> computations).  It is much easier for *ME* to parse the line and ignore
> the irrelevant sections if the destination appears on the left.  Have you
> ever looked through a program trying to find the rightmost reference in
> a set of lines of varying lengths?  Particularly if many lines have
> comments in the latter spaces on the line?

So right-justify your programs! Make nroff a programming aid! :->
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