On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 22:29, Mij wrote: > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > >On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 07:48, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > > > >No need to send your humours to me. K&R never said that char should be > >signed, it's not the norm. People just assume it, "Hey, it works on my > >machine, so it should work everywhere". Next you're gonna tell me that > >MMX assembly should also work on PPC because "What benefits do we get > >from being incompatible with the rest of the world?". > > > >Your time would be better spent fixing the programs that make this wrong > >assumption. Please, quote properly, I wrote that, not Albert. > Agree with Albert here. > Standards are more precious than how most people think. > Many peoples treat K&R as bible. They are authors of a widely used > programming language, > (not *good*, but *widely used*), but their book is one surely not one of > the best every written. -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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