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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 08:44:27 -0700
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4ke0krINNhd8@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <4kcer3$mi4@solutions.solon.com> <4kdmml$uv@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <dewar.829057929@schonberg>
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- In article <dewar.829057929@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >Fergus said
- >
- >"Every programmer has done something incompetent or foolish at some time."
- >
- >Except presumably Peter and Kazimir :-) :-)
-
- I don't see what this has to do with anything. I don't think that either of us
- has _purposely insisted_ on doing something incompetent or irrational in our
- programming.
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- The debate is about doing something purposely and consciously, not about
- making mistakes. If I make a mistake in my call to read() or select(), that is
- not the same as an expression of belief that these calls work a certain way.
- It's just an error, plain and simple.
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