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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Safe Software"
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Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> writes:
> David Brown wrote:
[...]
>> You have twice said that it is "pathetic" that people would use Win 3.1
>> support software to run games.  How is that to be interpreted other than
>> as saying it is "pathetic" that people would want to run old games?
>
> I said, and I quote, "[the] reply indicated that in this case [games] are
> the whole of it. AS A REASON FOR GOING TO THE BOTHER OF INSTALLING A
> WIN3.1 EMULATOR, that's pathetic".

And this has what exactly to do with C++, the topic of this newsgroup?

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */