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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Third public review of X3J11 C (a scientist speaks up)
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Date: 29 Aug 88 20:19:39 GMT
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>I didn't say it was perfect, I said it worked well.  There is a difference.
>Nobody expects a language to keep everybody happy.  (Personally I doubt
>that any language would keep Herman Rubin happy.)  C++ is a fairly well-done
>and highly usable extensible C.

That's a very nice compliment. Complacency is a sign of death.