Re: I'm still here

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From: Jim.Rees
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 1994 16:54

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In article <CTHOMP.94Apr15174217@hal.cs.uiuc.edu>, cthomp@hal.cs.uiuc.edu (Chuck Thompson) writes:

  I think calling ANSI C a different source language than K&R C is a
  poor choice of words.

They're certainly not the same, and to me that makes them different.  How
would you have put it?

  As for ANSI C being less portable than K&R,
  opinions differ.

K&R C is accepted by every ansi C compiler I know of, but I don't know of
any K&R C compilers that will accept ansi C.  So a program written in K&R C
will run on more machines than one written in ansi C.  That's what I meant
by "portable."

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