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Re: call to revolt

#3261
From: J. Horsmeier
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1991 14:55
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In article <1991Jun28.220128.22032@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>I've got a bone to pick with X3J11, as well!  I had some code that worked

[Yuck code deleted ...]

>
>I think we should all start a letter-writing campaign to protest how X3J11
>*broke* C!
>----
>Editor's note:  the posted example is true, only the code has been
[...]
>multiplication, therefore a random value was left in %eax.  The author of
>the code is now serving maximum sentence in a COBOL shop.
                                               ^^^^^

Try OBJECT-ORIENTED-COBOL, Like C++ they've called it:


                       ADD ONE TO COBOL GIVING COBOL


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From: jos@and.nl (J. Horsmeier)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: call to revolt
Message-ID: <1016@baby.and.nl>
Date: 29 Jun 91 14:55:52 GMT
References: <BURLEY.91Jun27120009@pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1004@baby.and.nl> <1991Jun28.220128.22032@kithrup.COM>
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