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- From: maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller)
- Subject: Re: Standard library functions and macros
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.052854.365@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- References: <1992Dec29.213548.5661@microsoft.com> <9300302.725@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <1993Jan04.224604.7304@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:28:54 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan04.224604.7304@microsoft.com> jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock) writes:
- >Whether I'm overreacting or not also depends on whether people consider
- >it important to get programmers to switch from C to C++.
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- IMHO much less of a problem than getting FORTRAN programmers
- to switch to C++. C programmers will switch to C whether they
- want to or not: C-only compilers are likely to just fade away :-)
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