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- From: sinan@cyberramp.net (John Noland)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: open vs fopen?
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 22:07:15 GMT
- Organization: Prose Software
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- References: <uEYFxc9nX8WX083yn@mbnet.mb.ca> <danpop.824525964@rscernix> <4gbdfr$l2a@newshost.cyberramp.net> <danpop.824829220@rscernix> <4gigkhINN8cu@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <4gigkhINN8cu@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>, c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca says...
- >
- >In article <danpop.824829220@rscernix>, Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
- > >>Again,sorry Dan. It just seemed like you were bragging about UNIX and
- > >>putting down DOS (god forbid).
- > >
- > >Could you post the paragraphs (from this particular thread) which gave
- > >you this impression?
- >
- >If Dan were advocating UNIX over DOS, would he not suggest that people avoid
- >stdio functions and go right for the cool UNIX/POSIX system calls?
- >
-
- What I said above was said in jest. The "God forbid" was supposed to convey
- mock astonishment. I have a great deal of respect for Dan and his knowledge
- of the C language. I admire his persistence in educting me to the proper
- etiquette of this group. I've poked some fun at him. So what. It wasn't
- mean or offensive. I do wish he could learn to be a little less brusk with
- some of the other people in this group. Aubrey of the feof() thread, for
- example. I'm thick skinned enough not to take what other people say
- personally, but some people aren't. And we should all respect that fact.
-
- If UNIX had the level of standardization that C does and vendors that
- cooperated, it would rule the world. That this isn't true is what I'm
- making fun of. NOT UNIX itself.
-
- Now, to go even further off topic. I have heard that Bell Labs has put the
- Plan 9 OS project on the back burner while Dennis Ritchie and his crew
- work on a project called Inferno. Supposedly, a language to compete with
- Sun's Java. Anyone know anything about this?
-
-
- -John
- "If elegance eludes me, brute force will just have to do."
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