Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Max line length (was Re: progra
Message-ID: <1989Mar18.214529.26534@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <203140@<1989Mar13> <225800141@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 89 21:45:29 GMT

In article <225800141@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>... "at least one program" is a loophole larger than
>the hole in the Titanic. What if it indeed translated and executed
>one particular program by including the text of one specific
>program in itself, checking for that program, and then spitting out
>a hand coded compiled result? 

Does it matter?  Nobody would buy it after the word got around.

(Unless of course it was released by Berkeley with 4.22BSD or AT&T with
System V release 57, in which case thousands of people would buy it
automatically, and then complain about it being X3J11's fault.)
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