From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39723581.2050502@noos.fr> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 00:21:53 +0200 From: Boyd Roberts User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; N; Win98; en-US; m14) Netscape6/6.0b1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Mash References: <200007162156.RAA15703@thunderer.cnchost.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: dee59e6c-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 pip@namaste.stricca.org wrote: > >s/interesting/bad/ > Care to share your bountiful wisdom ? Is it that you think that the > standardisation process of C made the language evolve for the worse ? > yeah, i think it got worse. look at the horrors like strftime(). on the other hand, look at the beauty of ken-C on plan 9. doing more with less -- that is the deal. -- Boyd Roberts boyd@psycho-basket-case.org ``I come over here to kill them cocksuckers, not work for 'em'' -- Moon Dog, _Pettibone's Law_, John Keene