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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 'C' Standards
Message-ID: <6447@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6447
Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: consistency

In article <2471@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>I must be missing something here.

As usual.  What you missed this time is the distinction between
"software developers" (which I referred to) and implementors of
ANSI C.  The latter will occasionally have to work hard in order
to make life simpler for the former.  But then, this point is
probably too subtle for someone who advocates changing a widely-
used language simply to conform to some idealized model in the
course of standardizing it.