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From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.misc,comp.unix.misc,news.misc
Subject: Re: Question for net.views column in UNIX Today!
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Date: 2 Apr 91 13:07:29 GMT
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klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) writes:
> Most people would claim that the ANSI C and IEEE POSIX standards are
> desirable, despite the fact that other useful programming languages and
> operating systems are in popular use.

Yeh, but C and UNIX weren't invented by a marketing organisation simply
to provide a basis for a standard, like Motif and OpenLook were.
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               (peter@taronga.uucp.ferranti.com)
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