Just Wondering

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <12715 at lanl.gov> jlg at lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>A suggesion that intrinsic operators with side-effects should not be
>implemented would hardly have been accepted as serious criticism by
>a committee standardizing C, for example.

Serious, perhaps.  Feasible, certainly not.
I agree with the move of discussions about what programming languages
"should" be like (as opposed to what C actually is) to comp.lang.misc.