Re: Opinions about a book

dj3vande@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 said:

> 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.

Best answer yet - well done. But I detect a hint of circularity. You seem 
to be saying that people should be interested in C99 because being so will

increase its intrinsic interest. In other words, it isn't interesting 
*yet*, but might become so eventually if we all pretend for long enough.

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