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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Leo's ANSI C Flame
Message-ID: <574@sas.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 88 23:01:19 GMT
Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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[tried EMail; it bounced.]

Structure passing / returning / assigning and enums predate ANSI by many,
many years (I have a copy of a paper descibing those features dated
November 15, 1978), so it isn't fair to criticize compiler-writers for 
introducing these ten-year-old features without the ANSI (less than
five-year-old) prototypes.
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