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From: dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: c-sick
Message-ID: <19461@wivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-May-84 01:12:01 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  1 01:12:01 1984
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Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma.  01879
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019 being equal to 17 decimal is an attribute of the VAX PCC lexer;
it is not a part of the C language definition.

Without disregarding the many baroque qualities of the language
definition, one must realize that 'net.lang.c' is a newsgroup for
Talmudic dissection of Kernighan and Ritchie--weird questions are
expected.  ANSI C should help clarify some of the ambiguities.
God help us when net.lang.ada really begins to be used!  
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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