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- Submitted-by: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
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- John Gilmore is quoted as saying:
- >>Standards exist to create stability.
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- gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
- >Wrong. Standards have all sorts of purposes.
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- With respect, standard are written for many laudable and
- non-laudable purposes. They are **accepted** by developers if they
- provide stability.
- I don't necessarily see more stability in my task these days:
- ANSI C is different enough that it constitutes a distinct dialect.
- Alas, it isn't widely accepted enough to make it the primary dialect.
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- So I'm reduced to writing LCD code still: Lowest Common Denominator!
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- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 12
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