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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous ?
Message-ID: <6657@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 24 Oct 89 15:29:11 GMT
References: <11388@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14110@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <14110@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
> Why?  Is C set in concrete?  What about C++ ???   How about (C++)++ ?
> Why are you so defensive about possible change - maybe even improvement?

Because we have seen what happened to X3J3 and Fortran 8x.
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