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From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
Date: 1996/04/11
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In article <dewar.829050467@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu "Robert Dewar" writes:

> Kazimir quoted "Peter's FAQ" as saying:
> 
> 1.3:    If I write the code
> 
>                 int i, j;
> 
>         can I assume that (&i + 1) == &j?
> 
> A:      Only sometimes.  It's not portable, because in EBCDIC, i and j are
>         not adjacent.
> 
> 
> I think a smiley is missing here. This is a nice joke, but one can only
> hope that no one thinks that the EBCDIC comment is technically relevant.

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.

Of course, this isn't just going to comp.lang.c.  But perhaps someone with
a reasonable knowledge of C would have spotted the toungue-in-cheek ness?

.splitbung
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