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  2. From: "Marcus H. Mendenhall" <mendenm@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: "Avoid K&R" (says AOL)
  5. Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 08:32:08 +0000
  6. Organization: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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  15. Greg DiGiorgio wrote:
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  17. > *** by which programmer's could show off as they became drunk. So, I'd
  18. > *** have an old IBM-PC (8088) that programmer's could use to write
  19. > *** an OS in BASICA. 
  20.  
  21. Get real.  A _serious_ person about this would expect that the new OS be 
  22. written in TECO on a PDP-11/05.  That way, you would really dig up the 
  23. nerds.  It's much more opaque than even assembly language.
  24.