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Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Sun Sep 10 10:44:41 AEST 1989
In article <14640 at bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff at bfmny0.UU.NET (0000-Admin(0000)) writes:
>>You will be able to rely on the ANSI standard to answer *most* questions...
>
>So X3J11 spent all those years to be able to answer *most* questions
>about C.
>
>I thought we could already do that when they started.
The semantics of "most" have changed. :-) It is undoubtedly true that the
standard will not answer all questions about the language. However, it
gives single, specific, unambiguous answers to a far greater fraction of
the questions than any previous document. Just *try* using K&R1 to
figure out the exact output from a tricky preprocessor example.
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