Path: utzoo!mnetor!spectrix!yunexus!oz
From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: volatile isn't necessary, but it's there (creeping pedanticity)
Message-ID: <397@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 88 05:06:45 GMT
References: <225adb27:40c0@snark.UUCP>
Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
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Eric S. Raymond (snark!eric) writes
>
>Yeah. Maybe we should form our own analogue of Vietnam Veterans Against The
>War; Compiler Hacks Against Compiler-hack Elitism.
>
	I think, seriously, something needs to be done, and soon.
	More than once, the *commercial incentives* behind this
	standard has been commented upon. Needless to say, the
	resulting *standard* bogosity will be cemented by the
	commercial implementations of the language. My hope is
	something like the Gnu C compiler may help the cause: It is
	an excellent compiler, for free, and currently free from the
	*standard*. [Sounds familiar: Common(?) Lisp vs. Scheme,
	and Franz, and ...]

	Of course, it also helps the New Testament (K&R^2) came out
	just in time...
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