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From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
Date: 1996/04/09
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Date: 1996-04-09T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <TYNOR.96Apr9105114@twratl.atlanta.twr.com>,
Steve Tynor <tynor@atlanta.twr.com> wrote:

>What does this have to do with EBCDIC? i and j in this examples are
>just identifier names of variables -- &i is the address of the
>variable i. I has nothing whatsoever to do with the EBCDIC (or ASCII
>or whatever character set you choose) value of the characters 'i' and
>'j'.  The answer is still "only sometimes", but not for the reason
>given :-). Or did I miss a Date: header of "1 Apr"?

It's a (partial) repost from Peter's contribution to Apr 1.
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