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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Size of C
Message-ID: <278DD3B5.455@tct.uucp>
Date: 11 Jan 91 15:03:17 GMT
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According to cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips):
>What good is a standard "C"? About as good as a standard FORTH!

Hardly.  Printf() and friends need not be huge.  The fact that many
implementations do a poor job of factoring withing the system library
says much about the implementors but little about the language.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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