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From: cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA (COTTRELL, JAMES)
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Subject: Readability
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 15:07:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 15:07:43 1985
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> Don't take K&R too much as gospel.  It is an excellent book,
> but it really did not try to specify everything to the level
> that a language lawyer would want.  (X3J11 is trying to do that.)
> K&R has to be read with the attitude of extracting the "spirit"
> of the language from what is implied as well as from what is said.

Agreed. However, after reading (some version) of the draft, now I
know why they call them `language lawyers'! K&R was at least readable.

	jim		cottrell@nbs
*/
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