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- From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
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- Subject: Re: Why no ANSI C compiler?
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 21:22:35 GMT
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- H.C. Pulley (hcp@csx.cciw.ca) wrote:
- : In article <92121119682@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca> root@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca (Superuser) writes:
- : >dfp10@thor.albany.edu (D Parsons) writes:
- : >> What is the problem? We have a standard why not follow it? Some of us
- : >> obtined COHERENT in order to learn programming. Don
- : >>
- : >The Coherent compiler does follow a standard. And you can definitely learn
- : >to program with it. I work with both K&R and ANSI. I may be the only
- : >person on Earth that feels this way, but I prefer to work in K&R. If I had
- :
- : You are not alone. I too prefer K&R to the ANSI standard.
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- You are really not alone, I prefer K&R too because it's portable
- to somewhat older platforms. Sure am I interested to get gcc, but
- not because of the ANSI stuff, the ++ is what I want to play with.
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