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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Schildt <- Advanced Books
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 10:34:08 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- References: <8BA8405.02C70020DE.uuout@sourcebbs.com> <3140BAC7.7608@oc.com> <4hsjqe$b91@solutions.solon.com> <4htj2sINNjd3@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <4htj2sINNjd3@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>,
- Kazimir Kylheku <c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
- >Heh, die-hard empiricist approaching a standardized, well-defined object.
-
- >If it works with Borland and Microsoft compilers, by the principle of
- >scientific induction it is plausible that it works with all C
- >implementations...
-
- I think mostly he was testing the stuff he had lying around to see whether
- or not there was any third party input available for the debate.
-
- As a general rule, empiricism is useful only *after* you have established
- that there is a bug such that the legal code will not run correctly, or
- that the legal code cannot be made fast enough. In the former case, you
- generally submit a bug report.
-
- -s
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