Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utastro!nather 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 Lines: 12 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 {backbones}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather nather@astro.as.utexas.edu