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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous ?
Message-ID: <11407@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Oct 89 20:48:49 GMT
References: <6637@ficc.uu.net> <14111@lanl.gov> <6658@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <6658@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>We have in the past had discussions in this newsgroup on what a good
>successor to C is... a systems programming language for the next century.
>That's the sort of thing you should be working on. We're looking towards
>automobiles, while you're arguing for a mechanical horse.

Why not give him the benefit and say he's trying to design an
automobile, while the rest of us are busy trying to use the
mechanical horses that we're currently stuck with.  Wish him
luck and bon voyage.