Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!dg!fs06!pds From: pds@lemming.webo.dg.com (Paul D. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: ANSI, K&R, H&S (was: Re: Just a minor new twist on free()) Message-ID: Date: 9 Nov 90 22:23:26 GMT References: <222@smds.UUCP> <4147@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Sender: root@dg.dg.com Organization: NSDD/ONAD, Data General Corp., Westboro, MA Lines: 27 In-reply-to: rns@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM's message of 6 Nov 90 21:00:19 GMT [] >> I DON'T think I've seen a C program in the last 8 years which [] >> DOES NOT use any language features EXCEPT those found in K&R I! [] What he is saying (and I think this is what he meant, too) is that [] each of the C programs he has seen in the last 8 years has used [] some feature not found in K&R I. Yes, this is what I meant; my junior-year English teacher would have a fit! :-( However, I think Stephen _did_ understand me; at least my response was based on the fact that he was implying that `our' programming environments (whoever "we" are: DG programmers? CMU graduates? People named Paul? Anyone named Smith? Left handed people? :-) were sufficiently insulated that we don't need to guard against any crafty, non-K&R I features creeping into our code. -- paul ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Paul D. Smith | pds@lemming.webo.dg.com | | Data General Corp. | | | Network Services Development | "Pretty Damn S..." | | Open Network Applications Department | | ------------------------------------------------------------------