typedefs, etc. - (nf)

[ajs at hpfcla.UUCP]

#R:cincy:-116500:hpfcla:43800004:000:1090
hpfcla!ajs    Jan 14 18:24:00 1984

Tim Maroney's statement that "<whatever> is the clearest way to do it in
C" cannot go unchallenged.  If there is one thing I have learned by now,
it is that  there  are no  absolutes,  at  least  not in this  business.
Things  only  seem  absolute  to  people   because  of  their   personal
perspectives.  "Absolutes" are just things almost everyone agrees on.

So, you do it your way,  I'll do it my way, and if we happen  to work on
each  other's  code and  don't  like it, we can  curse  each  other  out
publicly,  privately,  or under  our  breaths,  and  maybe  that  social
interaction  will  influence  us in ways that  bring us more  toward the
"accepted  standard",  and maybe not,  because  that's how it has always
really worked anyway; <flame off>.

Alan "I finally got to flame at Tim" Silverstein

PS:  I  reserve  to  right  to make  seemingly  inconsistent  absolutist
arguments in the future, because assertiveness is part of the game.

PPS:  Any cretin (and most other people) can see that "return (a == b);"
is clearer than "return a == b;", so there, nyaa, nyaa.  :-)