Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: va_list used inMessage-ID: <1989Aug20.024917.29162@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1140@midgard.Midgard.MN.ORG> <10720@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2095@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <10739@smoke.BRL.MIL> <13572@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <10766@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1989Aug18.184635.26773@utzoo.uucp> <1515@muffin.cme.nbs.gov> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 89 02:49:17 GMT In article <1515@muffin.cme.nbs.gov> libes@cme.nbs.gov (Don Libes) writes: >... I will say that V1#1 was worthwhile. In fact, I was >extremely impressed. > >The articles were real "meat" articles spelling out problems and >solutions to the real hard problems facing C implementors and >programmers today. Oh, I agree, the content is good stuff. It's just ludicrously priced. >As far as the price, I can't afford it either, but I am asking my >employer to buy a subscription. (You'll notice this in your next tax >increase.) If you are really as interested in C as you claim to be, >get your employer to buy a copy for crissakes. My employer would look at a PO for it, inquire "what's this?", and on finding out that it was costing about C$2 per page, say "what in God's name kind of paper is it printed on -- gold leaf?!?". The upshot would be "forget it". It is a mistake to assume that C implementors are all rich corporations to whom several hundred dollars a year is petty cash. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu