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From: root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: C array follies 1
Message-ID: <628@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 22:31:25 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  8 22:31:25 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Sep-85 04:06:58 EDT
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>From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
>Subject: Re: C array follies 1
>
>Maybe language "D" can fix all C's mistakes (ha).  Meanwhile we just
>have to learn to cope with them.

"The C Programming Language", Ritchie et al, BSTJ V57, No. 6, Part 2, 1978,
page 2019:

	"...C would probably have to be left as is, and a
	totally now language developed. We leave it to the
	reader to speculate whether it should be called
	D or P." (very last sentence in the article.)

For your amusement.

		-Barry Shein, Boston University
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