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Subject: Re:  need info: %r in printf
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Date: Sat, 22-Oct-83 02:12:08 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 22 02:12:08 1983
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From:      Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn@brl-vld>

Just for the record, you CAN get a more recent definition of C; just
buy the appropriate UNIX System V manuals.  You don't need a license.
The language is much nicer these days than it was at the time of 7th
Edition UNIX.

I obtained the DECUS C compiler and was not at all impressed with it.
To give the audience an idea of how its developers viewed C, the DECUS
compiler was WRITTEN IN MACRO-11!  Most of the emphasis in its library
support was on ways of accessing the baroque DECisms, especially bad
in the RSX-11M version.  You would think that "Software Tools" would
have had a larger impact..