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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: High level C
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 09:30:40 -0700
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
[...]
> Unless or until the Committee is willing to recognize that it would be
> good for different implementations to support different features and
> guarantees, I really don't see much useful a "standard" can accomplish.

Which explains why nobody ever manages to do anything useful in C.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
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