From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@no.spam.btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: Placement of pragma Import
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 22:40:34 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-12-08T22:40:34+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 3DF393AA.6040709@acm.org
"Jeffrey Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
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> Michal Nowak wrote:
> > "<<Over 50,000 lines of code,
> > you probably should be programming in Ada.>>
> > Whoever said that, he's right."
>
> I think you'll find that that was Dennis Ritchie.
It was actually P J Plauger (of Dinkumware) who, I believe sits
on the ANSI C & C++ committees. I have a reference to this
quote in a '97 DISA and JIEO presentation where the SLOC
is given as 100,000.
I understand that he has been quizzed on this infamous quote
by at least one of the regular poster/readers to this newsgroup
and it seems he really did say this or at least something so close
to it as not to be slanderous!
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-08 10:23 Placement of pragma Import Michal Nowak
2002-12-08 12:26 ` Simon Wright
2002-12-08 15:08 ` Michal Nowak
2002-12-08 18:46 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-12-08 19:46 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-12-08 21:08 ` James S. Rogers
2002-12-09 1:21 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-12-09 4:47 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-12-09 21:56 ` Michal Nowak
2002-12-08 22:40 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2002-12-09 1:42 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-12-09 7:00 ` Martin Dowie
2002-12-10 2:04 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-12-09 21:55 ` Michal Nowak
2002-12-10 1:32 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-12-09 14:34 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-09 21:56 ` Michal Nowak
2002-12-08 18:44 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-12-09 21:55 ` Michal Nowak
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2002-12-08 11:12 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-12-08 18:49 ` tmoran
[not found] ` <053001c29eaa$ad9b72f0$6500000a@dhoos>
2002-12-08 15:07 ` Michal Nowak
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