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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
> On Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 12:52:53 PM UTC-5, already...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> icc != lcc
>
> I love screen fonts which make lowercase l's look like uppercase I's.  Grr...
>
> In any case, I think that much of the spirit of C is not only that it was
> designed to be processed with a simple compiler, but also that programmers
> targeting platforms where certain constructs behave in a documented
> predictable fashion should be able to use such constructs.  How does lcc
> stack up in that regard?

FYI, there's a comp.compilers.lcc newsgroup.  A lot of the traffic is
about lcc-win, but there's discussion about the original lcc as well.
I know jacob participates there.

If you post there, you might want to be more specific about "certain
constructs".

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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