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From: mjy@sdti.UUCP (Michael J. Young)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Another thing broken in ANSI C
Message-ID: <201@sdti.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 21:49:44 GMT
References: <3726@hoptoad.uucp> <6922@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1178@wjvax.UUCP> <3334@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: mjy@sdti.UUCP (0000-Michael J. Young)
Organization: Software Development Technologies, Sudbury MA
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In article <3334@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> jss@hector (Jerry Schwarz) writes:
>Nothing in the Standard breaks anything. Only implementations  break
>code.

Seen on a bumper sticker on the car of an X3J11 member:

"Standards don't break code.  Implementations do."
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