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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] the declaration of main()
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:22:31 GMT

Boyd Roberts wrote:
> i don't agree because:
>     general purpose solutions aren't

Standards would be, except for bull-headedness on the part
of a small minority.  We even got the Gnu folks to appreciate
the value of providing standard conformance, while continuing
to innovate in other ways.

All that fighting a well-established standard does is to
isolate you from the rest of the world.  Do you really think
that there is no C code of value except for whatever has been
constructed specifically for Plan 9?