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Re: evaluate a generic swap function

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In article <j5d66r$dpl$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
jacob navia  <jacob@jspamsink.org> wrote:
>Le 21/09/11 17:45, Kenny McCormack a écrit :
>> In article<lnaa9y69pb.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org>,
>> Keith Thompson<kst-u@mib.org>  wrote:
>> ...
>>> And of course the previous standard, C90, is still of considerable
>>> significance; ISO says it's obsolete, but not everyone listens
>>> to ISO.
>>
>> Hold the phone there, Kiki my boy!
>>
>> If we admit that it is possible to not listen to ISO, then doesn't the whole
>> raison d'etre of this newsgroup fade away?
>>
>
>Of course this is the same guy that always has the word
>"the C standard exists for a reason"... to be held against
>anybody that disagrees with him...

Yup.  Now, obviously, there are ways to weasel out of this and explain how
what he wrote isn't really a repudiation of everything he stands for, but
the fact remains that I think I was hardly alone in being shocked and amazed
to hear those words from his mouth (*).

(*) Metaphorically speaking, of course...

-- 
(This discussion group is about C, ...)

Wrong.  It is only OCCASIONALLY a discussion group
about C; mostly, like most "discussion" groups, it is
off-topic Rorsharch [sic] revelations of the childhood
traumas of the participants...

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evaluate a generic swap function Stanley Rice <heconghui@gmail.com> - 2011-09-20 06:51 -0700
  Re: evaluate a generic swap function jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-09-20 16:01 +0200
    Re: evaluate a generic swap function jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-09-20 14:29 +0000
      Re: evaluate a generic swap function jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-09-20 21:13 +0200
        Re: evaluate a generic swap function jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-09-20 20:30 +0000
          Re: evaluate a generic swap function Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-09-20 17:05 -0700
            Re: evaluate a generic swap function gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-09-21 15:45 +0000
              Re: evaluate a generic swap function Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-09-21 09:33 -0700
              Re: evaluate a generic swap function jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-09-21 19:17 +0200
                Re: evaluate a generic swap function gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-09-21 17:34 +0000
                Re: evaluate a generic swap function Jack Foot <foot@dev.null.invalid> - 2011-09-21 18:12 +0000
  Re: evaluate a generic swap function Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-09-20 07:33 -0700
    Re: evaluate a generic swap function ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2011-09-20 08:26 -0700
      Re: evaluate a generic swap function pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-09-20 23:10 -0400
  Re: evaluate a generic swap function "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-09-20 22:20 +0100
    Re: evaluate a generic swap function jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-09-20 23:23 +0200
      Re: evaluate a generic swap function Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-09-20 23:07 +0100
  Re: evaluate a generic swap function Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-20 21:15 -0400
    Re: evaluate a generic swap function Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-09-21 03:17 -0700
  Re: evaluate a generic swap function Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> - 2011-09-21 02:40 -0700
  Re: evaluate a generic swap function Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-09-23 01:46 +0000
    Re: evaluate a generic swap function Nelu <tandauioan@gmail.com> - 2011-09-23 10:26 -0700
      Re: evaluate a generic swap function Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-09-23 18:36 +0100
        Re: evaluate a generic swap function Nelu <tandauioan@gmail.com> - 2011-09-23 10:49 -0700
          Re: evaluate a generic swap function Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-09-23 20:18 +0100
            Re: evaluate a generic swap function Nelu <tandauioan@gmail.com> - 2011-09-23 12:54 -0700
              Re: evaluate a generic swap function James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-09-23 16:43 -0400
                Re: evaluate a generic swap function Nelu <tandauioan@gmail.com> - 2011-09-23 13:49 -0700
                Re: evaluate a generic swap function James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-09-23 17:44 -0400
                Re: evaluate a generic swap function Nelu <tandauioan@gmail.com> - 2011-09-23 18:04 -0700
                Re: evaluate a generic swap function Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-24 13:52 -0800
              Re: evaluate a generic swap function Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-09-23 21:46 +0100
                Re: evaluate a generic swap function Nelu <tandauioan@gmail.com> - 2011-09-23 13:59 -0700
                Re: evaluate a generic swap function Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-09-26 22:59 +0000
          Re: evaluate a generic swap function pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-09-23 18:19 -0400
            Re: evaluate a generic swap function Nelu <tandauioan@gmail.com> - 2011-09-23 16:36 -0700

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