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- From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
- 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: Sat, 13 Apr 96 00:28:00 GMT
- Organization: City Zen FM
- Message-ID: <829355280snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <4kcpgkINNcku@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <dewar.829050467@schonberg> <829194287snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> <4kkrijINN6oi@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <4kkrijINN6oi@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca "Kazimir Kylheku" writes:
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- > In article <829194287snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>,
- > Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- > >Yes, Kazimir did leave the attirbution a little hazy :-) Maybe he was
- > >assuming that everyone here would have lurked at least a week and a half in
- > >the newsgroup and thus would have read `Peter's FAQ' when it was posted on
- > >April 1st, with proper smileys, warnings, caveats etc.
- >
- > Smileys, warnings, caveats or any other April Fool's designations drastically
- > reduce the impact of the thing. By the way, when it was posted by Peter, it
- > carried no such markings either, other than the date. When I started into it,
- > I was caught by surprise.
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- Hmm, it seemes you are right, however, there is always:
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- 18.27: Is this FAQ for real?
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- .splitbung, who had heard of the c-iaq by reputation, and so was expecting it
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