Re: Opinions about a book

In article <U5Odnb-3VJ34F4PVnZ2dnUVZ8qLinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Richard Heathfield  <rjh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>lawrence.jones@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 said:

>> Also, their treatment of C99, which most people *should* be interested
>> in,  is cursory at best.
>
>Why should everyone be interested in C99? What's so interesting about it?

If enough C programmers become interested in C99, the people
responsible for the widely-used implementations might decide it's worth
sup****ting the whole standard instead of just the parts that are
convenient for them, which will make it rather more widely available
(and therefore rather more interesting) than it is now.


dave

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Dave Vandervies                          dj3vande at eskimo dot com
It's not 'lusing' when it works very well. Contemptible, maybe, but
not 'lusing'.
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