From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Tom Wheeley Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada) Date: 1996/04/13 Message-ID: <829355280snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 147222646 x-nntp-posting-host: tsys.demon.co.uk references: <4kcpgkINNcku@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <829194287snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> <4kkrijINN6oi@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> x-sig-by: Tomsystems Quote v1.2. (c)1996 Tom Wheeley, tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk x-mail2news-path: tsys.demon.co.uk organization: City Zen FM reply-to: tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4kkrijINN6oi@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca "Kazimir Kylheku" writes: > In article <829194287snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>, > Tom Wheeley 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. Hmm, it seemes you are right, however, there is always: 18.27: Is this FAQ for real? ..splitbung, who had heard of the c-iaq by reputation, and so was expecting it -- * TQ 1.0 * The 'Just So Quotes'. "Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children." -- Miriam Robbins