ARRGH! Does anybody maintain a digest??

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Wed Oct 25 06:38:14 AEST 1989


In article <285 at grape1.UUCP> peed at cell.mot.COM (Andrew Peed) writes:
>	Help, help, I'm drowning! I'd like to keep up with the discussion in
>this newsgroup, but I don't have time to read it every day. Does anyone out
>there in netland maintain a comp.lang.c.digest or some such thing? Please

Sure; put the following into a file and arrange for "cron" to mail it
to you on a regular basis.

	CONSTANT COMP.LANG.C DIGEST

	Novice asks:	When my totally scrambled program broke, why?

	Chris Torek responds:	[120 lines of detailed explanation and
			examples]

	Henry Spencer responds:	C works like that.

	Jim Giles chips in:	This shows how the C cabal is trying
			to rot everybody's mind out.

	Herman Rubin says:	C ought to let me test the overflow
			bit; after all, my machine does have one.

	Dennis Ritchie says:	If you want assembler, you know where
			to find it.

	Regular C user asks:	Does the Standard say anything about ...?

	Several:	Yes, it says ...

	Somebody:	Well, that's horrible!  We should never let a
			committee meddle with C.  C has always been
			like it was on the system I learned it on!

	Doug Gwyn replied:	Dammit, X3J11 knew what they were doing.
			Go away.



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