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From: mat@mole-end.UUCP (Mark A Terribile)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: fortran to C converter
Summary: Revocation of inhibition and carving knives
Message-ID: <151@mole-end.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 89 08:08:02 GMT
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> This newsgroup has become very silly lately, rather like the end of a
> Python sketch.

I second the assertion.  Dare I remind people what netnews old-timers
should already know:

	Always expect abandonment of inhibition.

> Speaking of doubleprecision, the next topic of discussion is why C
> believes in whitespace.
>
> 				Dennis Ritchie

If I may be permitted to criticize the distinguished author, it might
have been wiser not to suggest the topic!

C resembles a block of knives, each one tempered, shaped, ground, and
sharpened to do a particular job.  Some of the (like the comma op) are
mean for special details, like the knives used to get the last bit of
flesh off a bone.  If such knives are used in other roles, they will not
cut well, will dull rapidly or break, and will generally raise the risks
to both the job and the people doing it.  That doesn't mean that such
knives don't belong in the block, nor does the presence of a given knife
in the block constitute a blanket recommendation of that knife for all
jobs.

ANSI C gives us plenty of good stuff to talk about.  Let's keep this a
technical group so that it doesn't wind up as talk.c-freaks .
-- 

(This man's opinions are his own.)
From mole-end				Mark Terribile