Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!tkou02.enet.dec.com!diamond From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Need help inputting Float #'s Message-ID: <1862@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Date: 23 Jul 90 01:32:41 GMT References: <2899@orbit.cts.com> Reply-To: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo Lines: 15 In article <2899@orbit.cts.com> max@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Max Tardiveau) writes: >karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes : >>... we gurus ... >I thought there was an unspoken tradition that noone can call himself >or herself a guru (except K&R). I always thought that others can call >you and recognize you as a guru, but that you should not apply that >term to yourself. Guess I was wrong. Perhaps after enough people have called Karl Heuer a guru, he is allowed to agree. He's probably even more of a guru than K&R, in terms of making fewer mistakes. -- Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com This is me speaking. If you want to hear the company speak, you need DECtalk.