Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu!kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu!rob From: rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C, and what it is for Message-ID: <615@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> Date: 19 Sep 88 23:51:11 GMT References: <8809092242.AA20696@BOEING.COM> <8537@smoke.ARPA> Sender: news@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) Organization: Ohio State Univ, College of Engineering Lines: 20 In article <8537@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) writes: >In article <8809092242.AA20696@BOEING.COM> carroll%seatac@BOEING.COM (Jeff Carroll 544-6349) writes: >>... give their customers what they want. >[Presumably "they" means "the customers".] That's what the grammar says (most recent applicable entity). >The above policy tends to produce products that are not in the >customers' genuine best interests. [ system analists are necessary ] > [ C is not FORTRAN, so sys ana's, not F programmers should look at > features ] Marvelous. Now how does this answer the complaint that those helpful, friendly, necessary system people are 1) telling numerical people to f*** off, and 2) on their more polite days not displaying any interest in the needs of numerical programmers? And then I seem to detect a assert( num_programmer == fortran_programmer ) somewhere in your code. Slight prejudice? Rob Carriere