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From: Paul DuBois <dubois@primate.wisc.edu>
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Subject: void main
To: kpneal@pobox.com (Kevin P. Neal)
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 01:21:16 -0500 (CDT)
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>I'm going to a University that teaches "void main(void)" in it's 100-level
>CSC (CS is crop-science here, YES I am in the south!) programming class.
>Since 114 is the alternative to Chemistry II for many people, 95% of the
>people in CSC 114 will never take another programming class again. This 
>makes it "OK" to teach void main here (or so I am told, I think that's 
>bull).

Um, so what exactly is wrong with void main, other than that you don't
happen to like it?