Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpb!nevin1
From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Third public review of X3J11 C
Message-ID: <8660@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 88 23:15:16 GMT
References: <8365@smoke.ARPA> <225800053@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <8374@smoke.ARPA> <4203@adobe.COM> <897@l.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <897@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
|In article <4203@adobe.COM>, burgett@steel.COM (Michael Burgett) writes:
 
|> My hat
|> off to the committee for not bowing to public pressure to try to make C all
|> things to all people (can you say PL/1... I knew you could.)

|That a badly designed language was rejected is irrelevant.

But the part that isn't irrelevant is *why* did PL/1 turn out, in your
words, to be a badly designed language?  We don't want to go around
repeating the mistakes of the past if we don't have to.
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