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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!wombat.newcastle.edu.au!eepjm
  3. From: eepjm@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Moylan)
  4. Subject: Re: Use of "dereference"
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul27.135037.1@wombat.newcastle.edu.au>
  6. Lines: 12
  7. Sender: news@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au
  8. Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
  9. References: <11454725.19.712045108@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au> <1887@sdrc.COM>
  10. Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 03:50:37 GMT
  11.  
  12. In article <1887@sdrc.COM>, scjones@thor.sdrc.com (Larry Jones) writes:
  13.  
  14. > the object.  It's certainly a jargon term -- I don't believe I've ever
  15. > heard anyone other than C programmers use the term.  The definitive
  16.  
  17. Jargon, yes; but it's by no means confined to the C language.
  18.  
  19. Having read a lot of C programs, I would find it very offensive
  20. to be called a C programmer.
  21.  
  22. -- 
  23. Peter Moylan                      eepjm@wombat.newcastle.edu.au
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