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From: throopw@xyzzy.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 'C' Standards
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
>> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
>> [...] software developers cannot really afford to take into
>>account the uncontrolled vagaries of all past, present, and future
>>operating systems.
> Huh?  But the standards committee has been defending to the death its right
> to take into account the uncontrolled vagaries of all past, present, and
> future computing hardware.  I must be missing something here.

Indeed you are.  You've changed the subject from developers to
committee-members.  The standards comittee has been taking these things
into account so that software developers who follow the standard won't
have to.







--
"I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said.
"No good," the man in black replied.  "I've known too many Spaniards."
                        --- From The Princess Bride by William Goldman
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Wayne Throop      <the-known-world>!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!throopw