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From: blair@cs.columbia.edu (Blair Seidler)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: Re: Contests (was Re: Yet another posting...:))
Message-ID: <1991May3.191026.10077@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 3 May 91 19:10:26 GMT
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In article <GLENN.91May3123813@curie.ces.cwru.edu> glenn@curie.ces.cwru.edu (Glenn Crocker) writes:
>
>Question:  I didn't go to nationals this year and was wondering whether
>they ended up using unix for the contest.  They were talking about it
>at one point.... If they did use it, did they strip down the library
>so that it didn't include unixisms like popen?
>

We had the pleasure of using System V Unix.  Of course, not only did they kill
the Unixisms, but they wiped out a bunch of functions in an effort to reduce C
to the utility level of Pascal.  But at least we had C and Unix...
-- 
Blair A. Seidler          Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science
(212) 853-6874                           Columbia University
   "Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science does not
     even know that my opinions exist, and would ignore them if it did."