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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 23:07:30 GMT
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- Message-ID: <827449650snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- References: <1995Jul3.034108.4193@rcmcon.com> <4ia3gf$drf@solutions.solon.com> <4iik8r$asg@henry.netaxis.com> <4ijl63$nd@solutions.solon.com>
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- In article <4ijl63$nd@solutions.solon.com>
- seebs@solutions.solon.com "Peter Seebach" writes:
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- >In article <4iik8r$asg@henry.netaxis.com>,
- >john p radigan <jradigan@davinci> wrote:
- >>Times change, even "aspirin" was a trademarked term once. Might as well face
- >>it and give up the ghost, the original usage of "hacker" is essentially a
- >>deprecated term today.
- >
- >It's not deprecated until a standard mentions it as obsolescent. :)
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- That begs the question of why gets() wasn't marked as obsolecent by the
- ANSI standard.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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