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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Just Wondering
Message-ID: <10133@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Apr 89 03:30:45 GMT
References: <10122@smoke.BRL.MIL> <12715@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <12715@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>A suggesion that intrinsic operators with side-effects should not be
>implemented would hardly have been accepted as serious criticism by
>a committee standardizing C, for example.

Serious, perhaps.  Feasible, certainly not.
I agree with the move of discussions about what programming languages
"should" be like (as opposed to what C actually is) to comp.lang.misc.