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From: roy@pyr.gatech.EDU (Roy Mongiovi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: (So-Called) ANSI C
Message-ID: <4668@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 20 Dec 87 07:35:50 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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Am I the only person out here that thinks ANSI C is a new language?

I thought the purpose of X3J11 was to standardize on the existing
C language.  It seems to me, however, that so many old twists have
been removed, so many new wrinkles have been added, and so many
existing C programs broken by the so-called standard that it is
no longer the same language.

It may have a lot of nice, perhapes even needed features, but
(in my opinion) it just ain't C.

Comments anyone?
-- 
Roy J. Mongiovi     System Support Specialist     Office of Computing Services
Georgia Institute of Technology		Atlanta GA  30332.	(404) 894-4660
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