Newsgroups: comp.arch
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Complex Instructions
Message-ID: <1989Apr22.225835.6046@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Sat, 22 Apr 89 22:58:35 GMT

In article <1011@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>My point was that IBM have a software convention for System/370, and that
>their Pascal compiler (which is not a fully supported product, but it is
>the compiler they will provide to customers who want Pascal) was written
>after that convention was well established and described in hundreds of
>books, and it _does_ _not_ follow that convention...

Might this have something to do with how ill-designed that convention is?
"If you want people to use standards, make it easier and faster to be
standard than to be non-standard."
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