Uses of "short" ?

[Ed Nather]

> There is an unfortunate tendency for C programmers to think in terms of a
> concrete machine that they're programming for, rather than an abstract
> machine - [...]
> 
> 	Guy Harris

The only concrete machine I ever programmed just let you dial in how long
it was supposed to run before the stuff got all mixed up.  :-)
-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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