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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Linkage Declaration (was Re: Standardization (of FORTRAN, Ada, ect.))
Message-ID: <1988Dec5.180619.1627@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References:  <395@ubbpc.UUCP> <311@csun1.UUCP> <2086@garth.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 88 18:06:19 GMT

In article <2086@garth.UUCP> phipps@garth.UUCP (Clay Phipps) writes:
> [BLISS linkage control]
>Now if only the standards committees for languages like FORTRAN,
>Pascal, C, &c. would translate something like this into
>idioms that fit those languages.  I can dream, can't I ?

More like a nightmare.  Standards committees are not in the business of
doing this sort of thing without prior experience in real implementations.
When they do, the result is usually a dreadful botch.
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