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From: goer@sophist.uucp (Richard Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How dare you!
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Date: 6 Feb 90 17:50:47 GMT
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Harmless query:

> SS>I have just turned on this echo and am wondering if there are many 
> SS>MicroSoft C v5.1 programmers out there.

Reply:

> >>BTW, this is the wrong place to ask. Try comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer 
> >>when
> >>it is created in a few days. Also, please do not clutter the net with
> >>questions like this: These articles travel all over the continent, and
> >>sometimes all over the world. For some companies, this costs major
> >>dollars.

I too have noticed a certain snobbishness in many newsgroups about things
like this.  Microsoft's is a perfectly valid compiler.  My Xenix 2.3.3 runs
a version of 5.1 with a DOS cross-development system.  I would have been
interested in an answer.  I don't quote the names of the posters here be-
cause there is no reason to get personal.

   -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet
   goer@sophist.uchicago.edu         rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer