Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups

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From: Ambrose Li
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 22:30

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In article <4bg95m$3ck@insanity.foxnet.net>,
Duncan Ruxton <druxton@foxnet.net> wrote:
>As an interesting aside, many libraries for C compilers would treat
>the forward slash as a valid path separator until recently, if they
>are not still doing so.

Actually, it takes nothing for C libraries to accept /; and,
in fact, if the C libraries are *not* treating / as a valid
separator, they are using extra code to ensure that / is not
recognized (based on the incorrect assumption that \ is the
only valid directory separator). If you have played around
with int 21h calls yourself, you will know that / has always
been, and still is, a valid directory separator. Every time
I see a program that rejects / I will conclude that that
program is broken beyond repair.

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From: acli@byron.net4.io.org (Ambrose Li)
Subject: Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups
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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 22:30:58 GMT
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