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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:39:53 -0400
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Subject: Re: [OT] Dennis Ritchie dies at 70
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On 10/15/2011 2:12 PM, Volker Borchert wrote:
> Tom Anderson wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, Volker Borchert wrote:
>>
>>> rossum wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:20:00 -0700, markspace<-@.>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dennis Ritchie, whose work creating the C programming language and the
>>>>> Unix operating system became the cornerstone of today???s modern world of
>>>>> computing, has died. He was 70.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ritchie???s death was announced Wednesday in a staff memo from Jeong Kim,
>>>>> president of Bell Labs, where Ritchie worked from 1967 to 2007.
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2011/10/13/dennis-ritchie-computer-pioneer-dies-at-70/?tsp=1>
>>>>
>>>> #include<stdio.h>
>>>>
>>>> int main(void)
>>>> {
>>>>      printf("Goodbye, world.\n");
>>>>      return 0;
>>>> }
>>>
>>> main() {
>>>        printf("Goodbye, World.\n");
>>>        return 0;
>>>        /* Atheists use
>>>        exit(0);
>>>        */
>>> }
>>
>> At least put that in an IFDEF!
>
> Combined with<5mlom8-vij.ln1@hurricane.fredriksson.dy.fi>  we have now
>
> main(argc, argv)
> 	int argc;
> 	char *argv[];
> {
> 	printf("Goodbye, World.\n");
>
> #ifdef ATHEIST
> 	exit(0);
> #else
> 	return 0;
> #endif
> }
>
> Can this be agreed upon?

K&R style arguments is a brilliant idea for this!

Arne