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From: marty1@houdi.UUCP (M.BRILLIANT)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: Verbose declarations proposal (Re: Address of Array)
Message-ID: <1454@houdi.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 87 17:31:52 GMT
References: <6884@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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My mailer (vn) doesn't say who this is from:
> 
> In article <1449@houdi.UUCP> marty1@houdi.UUCP (M.BRILLIANT) writes:
>>I propose that the C language be extended to ...
> 
> Forget it.  There might have been some point in such a proposal a few
> years ago, early in the standardization process, but it is far too late
> for such a dramatic change in the language at this stage.

Maybe it should remain anonymous.  What it says is that C is too old
to change.  That is, it's a dead language and will be replaced rather
than adapted.  Funny thing, they said that about FORTRAN.

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
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