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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C, and what it is for
Message-ID: <3162@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 88 18:12:16 GMT
References: <8809092242.AA20696@BOEING.COM> <1988Sep22.163950.13700@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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In article <1988Sep22.163950.13700@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> Sensible standards committees focus on standardizing existing, well-proven
> practice, not on redesigning the language to try to make everybody happy.

True. Look how thoroughly trigrams were proven before they were included
in the new ANSI standard for the C language.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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