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From: ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: unsafe computing (Was: correct code for pointer subtraction)
Keywords: C pointer math runtime errors
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Date: 12 Jan 89 22:25:43 GMT
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>>C is not a language for the average programmer.
>
> In fact, C is not a language for *sub*-standard programmers.
> That doesn't stop them from using it, unfortunately.

Nor, evidentally from the MicroSoft example, does it stop them from attempting
to write C compilers.

-Ron