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From: jenkins@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Steve Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Macro sustitution inside quotes
Message-ID: <7732@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 11 Apr 90 14:50:25 GMT
References: <636@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <1281@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> <12534@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1284@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> <7722@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1457@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
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In article <1457@tkou02.enet.dec.com> diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) writes:
>[....]  But Reiser's inventions were easier to understand, easier to use,
>easier to implement, and less surprising than ANSI's inventions.  ANSI
>should have done less work.

If the criterion for language design were always "easier to
understand, easier to use, easier to implement, and less surprising",
we'd all be programming in BASIC.

The point is still that Reiser was wrong and ANSI is right.  Had ANSI
adopted the Reiser behavior, perfectly correct (by K&R1) C programs
would have become broken.  I can't see the justification for that.

I guess we agree to disagree.

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