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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: C Programming questions
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Date: 12 Apr 91 05:11:31 GMT
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Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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One more time...

The C libraries provided by NeXT are primarily based on 4.3 BSD.
They are not ANSI libraries, they are not GNU libraries.  They
are (old) BSD libraries.  All the things you're griping about
are straight from AT&T.

I'm not convinced that "ANSI" C is a good thing (last I heard
it *wasn't* a standard either, only a draft standard).

It could be worse... "POSIX compilance" is the WORST disease to
ever afflict the UNIX community (yes, Virginia, worse than X).

[Let's not start a flame war on this, guys...]

					-=EPS=-