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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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"Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com> writes:
> "David Brown" <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote in message
[...]
>> while C99 is a
>> "complete and utter joke" is not going to get you much technical help.
>
> I don't see what bearing my opinion on C99 (or politics,
> or anything) has on a technical discussion of C90, but
> so be it.
[...]

It *should* have no bearing at all.  The problem is that if you
come here and say that C99 is a "complete and utter joke" or make
similarly inflammatory statements, people are going to react.
If you don't want that reaction, don't make statements like that.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */