Third public review of X3J11 C
Liber
nevin1 at ihlpb.ATT.COM
Thu Sep 1 09:15:16 AEST 1988
In article <897 at l.cc.purdue.edu> cik at l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
|In article <4203 at adobe.COM>, burgett at steel.COM (Michael Burgett) writes:
|> My hat
|> off to the committee for not bowing to public pressure to try to make C all
|> things to all people (can you say PL/1... I knew you could.)
|That a badly designed language was rejected is irrelevant.
But the part that isn't irrelevant is *why* did PL/1 turn out, in your
words, to be a badly designed language? We don't want to go around
repeating the mistakes of the past if we don't have to.
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