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CS 170
HW#1

        Due at start of class, Thursday, Sept. 10, 1998. Read to page 80 in P&Z.  Then do the following exercises from P&Z as well as the written exercise below:

 
p.31 #4. p.60 # 2,5,6.

As programming languages evolve they often become bloated with features 
which are maintained only for backwards compatibility reasons. Choose a 
feature of the language you used for CS101 which you think is unneeded. 
Justify your claim in terms of the six attribute of a good programming 
language described on page 12 of P&Z.