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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: quotes inside #if 0
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Date: 8 Sep 89 19:21:04 GMT
References: <2014@munnari.oz.au> <14512@haddock.ima.isc.com> <2023@munnari.oz.au> <1989Sep6.163608.20143@utzoo.uucp> <32896@ism780c.isc.com> <1989Sep8.154522.17068@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Sep8.154522.17068@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>You will be able to rely on the ANSI standard to answer *most* questions
>about the language, since it has been prepared with far greater care than
>most books about C.  However, there will undoubtedly still be questions
>that it won't answer, given that it was prepared by human beings and not
>by gods...

So X3J11 spent all those years to be able to answer *most* questions
about C.

I thought we could already do that when they started.