C, and what it is for

[Ed Nather]

In article <1988Sep22.163950.13700 at utzoo.uucp>, henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> Sensible standards committees focus on standardizing existing, well-proven
> practice, not on redesigning the language to try to make everybody happy.

True. Look how thoroughly trigrams were proven before they were included
in the new ANSI standard for the C language.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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