Re: Opinions about a book

Richard Heathfield <rjh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> Mark McIntyre said:
>> Richard Heathfield wrote:
[...]
>>> Why should everyone be interested in C99? What's so interesting about
>>> it?

[...]

>> and/or be so amazingly crossplatform that you have to stick to the C89
>> subset that's widely available, most of us actually have access to
tools
>> sup****ting many features of C99 on enough platforms to be useful.
>
> And in what way is this interesting to most people? I still don't get
it.

Um, in what way is the question of whether or not C99 is interesting
to most people interesting to *anyone*?

(Hyperbole alert: I'm sure that some people are interested in the
subject, just not enough to justify such a long thread.)

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) <kst-u@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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