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From: salomon@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Salomon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Seven Original Sins of K&R (Long)
Message-ID: <1990Oct2.040019.1635@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 2 Oct 90 04:00:19 GMT
References: <sazwbR600Vp6IHhVVV@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <sazwbR600Vp6IHhVVV@andrew.cmu.edu> vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio) writes:
> I don't know about this.  There are (unfortunately) still so many
> pre-ANSI compilers and so much pre-ANSI code (not to mention code that
> depends on the existence of the other "sins" that you mentioned) in use
> that it would be ridiculous for the time being to abandon backward
> compatibility.

Much more code is going to be written in C than currently exists.
Should we sacrifice all the code to come for the sake of the existing
code?
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Dan Salomon -- salomon@ccu.UManitoba.CA