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From: ozan s yigit <oz@blue.cs.yorku.ca>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [9fans] samuel (fwd)
Date: Thu,  7 Mar 2002 16:46:41 +0000
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"Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net> writes:

> > yeah, that and some other extensions (eg. nested functions a la pascal)
> > that have failed to make it to any other C compiler [or standard] in the
> > last decade. we have great time scraping them off of any code we find
> > them in, assuming we have to keep that code. :)
> 
> Ah well, such is the way of success, isn't it?

well, humpty-dumptyism aside, i observe that the earlier experimentation
seems to be dying down. it also helps to have other compilers like sun's
workshop to assist in the cleanup.

oz