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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada) Date: 1996/04/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 150677285 references: <4kets3$ic0@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <829194658snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> <01bb2dcf.e0201620$c6c2b7c7@Zany.localhost> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: iBradd said "Pardon me if this sounds silly, but... You shouldn't have to rely on the documentation to make up for a lack of common sense. Bradd." The idea that common sense can replace specifications is truly ludicrous. So ludicrous in fact that this must be a late April fool;s joke, no one could seriously write the above :-)