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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Leo's ANSI C Flame
Summary: me + Leo = trouble
Message-ID: <4734@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 5 Jul 88 00:10:51 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <6427@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	o Dennis M. Ritchie is not on the standards committee, and is also
>	  strangely silent on comp.lang.c with regard to opinions on what
>	  ANSI has done to his language.

Well, dennis has actually emitted twice on the subject, to the best of my
recall. The posts wer VERY subtle, and hilarious. The first one
basically said: ``noalias must go. this is not negotiable''. It went.
The second one pointed out that the ANSI comittee had not made the language
easier to use or solve any of the things dennis perceived as problems. They
did what he did many years ago. Declare the rules and then bend them by
saying: ``these are the exceptions''.

>	o ANSI has been focusing their efforts on making the job of the
>	  compiler writer easier, since the committee is populated largely
>	  by purveyors of compilers;

So ? This is what Intel did for the 80x86. and look what a rousing sucess 
it is as a processor.


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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard