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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous ?
Message-ID: <6674@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 25 Oct 89 15:51:23 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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I said, to Jim Giles:
    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.

In article <11407@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> 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.

Not at all. We're riding horses, because there aren't enough roads out
there good enough for cars. But they're getting there...
-- 
Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-'
"That particular mistake will not be repeated.  There are plenty of        'U`
 mistakes left that have not yet been used." -- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)