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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@pla...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] the declaration of main()
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:48:01 +0200

From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl...>
> 
> As someone who has invested a lot of effort over decades to
> this area, I find it frustrating when I encounter people who
> don't realize that the C standard reflects a lot more than the
> small amount of thought that they themselves have given the
> matter.

i got your point of view a long time ago [years].

i just don't agree, but i know what you're trying to achieve.

i don't agree because:

    general purpose solutions aren't

the ANSI C / small C argument has been done to death, so i
agree to disagree.  that's a taylor 'class 2 disaagreement'.