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From: cire@CLASH.CISCO.COM
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Subject: Re: Wollongong, Recvfrom, and UDP
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Date: 15 Jul 88 04:44:52 GMT
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>> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 88 13:49:24 PDT
>> From: mcc@ETN-WLV.EATON.COM (Merton Campbell Crockett)
>> To: Fitch@DOCKMASTER.ARPA, tcp-ip@SRI-NIC.ARPA
>> Subject: Re:  Wollongong, Recvfrom, and UDP
>> 
>> Don't understand why you're proud that you can read MACRO when you have to!
>> MACRO is wonderfully explicit unlike C which lacks clarity and Ada which is
>> totally obscure.

Let's not get religious here.  Sure MACRO is explicit but that is different
than clarity.  MACRO is clear when you understand it.  I think this is
generally true for any language (computer that is).  To someone that doesn't
know the machine the MACRO is for a program will be very obscure.  But
that isn't true for the higher level languages.  That is once you understand
the language.

-c
cire|eric

Eric B. Decker
cisco Systems
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