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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Bug in new K&R?
Summary: What has more than 8 legs, and less than one brain?
Message-ID: <235@obie.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 88 06:26:12 GMT
References: <7861@alice.UUCP>, <11552@ut-sally.UUCP> <1988May12.163809.16998@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Great Salt Lake Yacht Club, north branch
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In article <1988May12.163809.16998@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > Hmmm.  I thought ANSI was supposed to standardize the C language, not
> > fill the description with surprises ...
> 
> Standards committees tend to do the latter even when they are only supposed
> to do the former.  X3J11 has not been too bad about this, compared to some
> of the things that have happened in other standards efforts.

Like, for instance, the Fortran-88 committee?  It strikes me that a
new Fortran standard will be hard to push when IBM, DEC, and Harris
are all dead-set against it.
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