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Conference turris::languages

Title:Languages
Notice:Speaking In Tongues
Moderator:TLE::TOKLAS::FELDMAN
Created:Sat Jan 25 1986
Last Modified:Wed May 21 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:394
Total number of notes:2683

276.0. "(FUNNYP C-BASHING)" by RADI8::BEAIRSTO (I guess you had to be there) Tue Apr 10 1990 07:49

From 'Lisp Pointers', Vol. 3, No. 1:

[ FROM A GUY WHO ONLY HAS SECOND-HAND KNOWLEDGE OF THE AN-C COMPILER. ]

   TOP TEN THINGS OVERHEARD AT THE ANSI C DRAFT COMMITTEE MEETINGS:


10. Sorry, but that's too useful.

 9. But little-endian systems *are* more consistent!

 8. I'm on the committee and I *still* don't know what the hell #pragma is for.

 7. Well, it's an excellent idea, but it would make the compilers too hard 
    to write.

 6. Them bats is smart; they use radar.

 5. All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?

 4. How many times do we have to tell you, "No prior art!"

 3. Ha, ha, they're actually going to adopt this sucker.

 2. Thank you for your generous donation, Mr. Wirth.

   AND NUMBER ONE, THE TOP THING HEARD AT THE ANSI C DRAFT COMMITTEE,

 1. Gee, I wish we hadn't backed down on 'noalias'.
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