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Article #1862Re: Coding Standards are ignorant
From: Kai Henningsen
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:11
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:11
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kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze) wrote on 08.03.96 in <KANZE.96Mar8125719@gabi.gabi-soft.fr>: > We didn't miss it, we just don't agree:-). Except for a relatively few > people, a program with `void main()' is a legal ANSI C program, too. > IMHO, talking about ANSI C is about the same as writing `void main()'; > it generally works, and most people/compilers will know what you are > talking about, but that doesn't make it right. You misspelt "it generally doesn't work, and most compilers won't know what you are talking about". It's people who usually don't check return values that don't notice that it doesn't work. Kai -- Current reorgs: news.groups, news.admin.net-abuse.* (see nana.misc) Internet: kai@khms.westfalen.de Bang: major_backbone!khms.westfalen.de!kai http://www.westfalen.de/private/khms/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!khms.westfalen.de!kai Date: 13 Mar 1996 18:11:00 +0200 From: kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.std.c Message-ID: <64l0LFYEcsB@khms.westfalen.de> References: <4gum82$14v4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <4hfecl$33t@solutions.solon.com> <KANZE.96Mar5131710@slsvgqt.lts.sel.alcatel.de> <danpop.826218405@rscernix> <KANZE.96Mar8125719@gabi.gabi-soft.fr> Subject: Re: Coding Standards are ignorant X-Newsreader: CrossPoint v3.1 R/C435 Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-US-Congress: Moronic fucks.