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On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, David O'Brien wrote:

> Why isn't Eiffel (one of those pure OOL's) used more?  BECAUSE IT ISN'T
> C.  Got it?

I thought it was, because you can't write an event loop without using
(infinite) recursion :-)

jan

PS. This is all very amusing.


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