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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: what C needs
Message-ID: <6937@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 6 Jan 88 02:54:49 GMT
References: <8712241909.AA03710@decwrl.dec.com> <1759@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1759@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>Another interesting thing about Pascal, that ANSI might want to
>consider, is the idea of a level 0 (the basic language) and a level 1
>(the fancy stuff).

X3J11 did consider defining multiple language "levels", long ago,
and decided they did not want that.  I think the argument was that
even if agreement could be reached on what went into the "minimal"
level, nobody would actually want that subset anyway.