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[Kevin D. Quitt]

In article <19440 at grebyn.com> ted at grebyn.com (Ted Holden) writes:
>Exercise in Logic
> 
>From another poster whose name I am, mercifully, withholding:
>>"C is wrong for the world because a spaceship once fucked up due to a
>>'Do i=1.50 .....' type statement in a FORTRAN program"
> 
>Aside from showing a lack of basic reasoning ability on the author's
>part, there are two problems with this one:
> 
>        1.  The C equivalent ('for(i=0;i<5.i++') would be caught
>        instantly, at least by Turbo C or any reasonable DOS C compiler,
>        and I assume UNIX C compilers will all soon function similarly,
>        and the cursor brought immediately back to the error in
>        question.
> 
>        2.  Man doesn't belong in outer space.  If Mars or Venus were
>        made of diamonds, you couldn't bring them back and do aught but
>        lose money.
> 

    While I agree with point 1, and even though this isn't the space
group (no matter what Bill Wolfe thinks), item #2 is just dead wrong. 
Space is the only thing this government's done that's earned more money
than was spent. 

kdq
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