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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: 1996/04/11
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organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Date: 1996-04-11T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <829194287snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>,
Tom Wheeley  <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Yes, Kazimir did leave the attirbution a little hazy :-)  Maybe he was
>assuming that everyone here would have lurked at least a week and a half in
>the newsgroup and thus would have read `Peter's FAQ' when it was posted on
>April 1st, with proper smileys, warnings, caveats etc.

Smileys, warnings, caveats or any other April Fool's designations drastically
reduce the impact of the thing. By the way, when it was posted by Peter, it
carried no such markings either, other than the date.  When I started into it,
I was caught by surprise.
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