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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Fruits of X3J11 (was Re: quotes inside #if 0)
Message-ID: <6116@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 10 Sep 89 14:41:02 GMT
References: <1989Sep10.004441.23090@utzoo.uucp> <14646@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <14646@bfmny0.UU.NET>, tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
> why not publish a portable Standard C compiler, written in K&R-1 C...
> ...efficiency would not be the goal -- leave that to the commercial vendors.

> It seems to me that questions ... [could be answerwed by]
> "whatever Standard C does"

Problem with this is that hotshot efficiency may require changing the semantics
from what the Standard C Compiler does, while remaining within X3J11. Using a
C compiler as the C standard was a bad idea when that compiler was K&R, and
is a bad idea today.
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