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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: C Standard library
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 18:16:42 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- References: <4hf5ir$u4@Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> <4hf6hn$1fa@solutions.solon.com> <313B48DC.73DF@oc.com>
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- In article <313B48DC.73DF@oc.com>, Larry Weiss <lfw@oc.com> wrote:
- >That fact is the most extreme thing that the C Standardization committee
- >did to the C programming language. It changed the very nature of the
- >Standard library. I know that there are reasons they did it, but I don't
- >think that even yet, the fact that they did it has come "home" to most
- >programmers.
-
- Actually, I don't think it changed the standard library; what it did was
- change the nature of extensions. :) Sort of a shame, but I'd rather
- have a limited set I can count on reliably than a larger set with really
- unreliable behavior.
-
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