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Subject: Re: [9fans] caveat... optimizer? the `zero and forget' thread on HN
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:58:23PM +0000, Charles Forsyth wrote:
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> But suppose the standard does not evidently aim to be understood, in the
> generally understood meaning of "understood",
> or there are more words in the standard than will ever appear in the
> programmer's own programs?

Do you mean as if standards were designed or "improved" by committees?

Please: stop spreading FUD! (Were are my drops? I have tachycardia
again!)
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