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Article #2337Re: comment style
From: Jay Maynard
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 1991 22:49
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 1991 22:49
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[This one's drifted away from C standardization...replies {and the flames
I know I'll get for defending (horrors!) IBM} via E-mail, please. I simply
couldn't let it go unchallenged.]
In article <937@hadron.COM> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
>(b) Using Itty Blue Monster Co.'s name in the same phrase as "Standard"
>is an oxymoron. That company doesn't follow standards: it makes up its
>own ways of doing things so it can change them as often as it feels
>like. Which year's version of EBCDIC are you writing your notes with?
IBM's stuff is as much a standard in the world of DP - you know, such mundane
things as payrolls, accounts payable, and the like - as Unix is in the world
of academic computing. Whether or not you like it, it's still the truth.
Oh, yeah - EBCDIC hasn't changed in at least the 11 years I've dealt with it.
Which year's version of ASCII are _you_ writing your notes with?
--
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
"Today is different from yesterday." -- State Department spokesman Margaret
Tutwiler, 17 Jan 91, explaining why they won't negotiate with Saddam Hussein
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!lib!thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: comment style Message-ID: <4596@lib.tmc.edu> Date: 27 Jan 91 22:49:58 GMT References: <14906@smoke.brl.mil> <24885:Jan2017:05:1091@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <937@hadron.COM> Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu Followup-To: poster Organization: University of Texas Medical School at Houston Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu