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If you want X, you know where to find it.
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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There is a legend that Dennis Ritchie, inventor of C , once responded to
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demands for features resembling those of what at the time was a much more
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popular language by observing If you want PL/I, you know where to find it.
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Ever since, this has been hackish standard form for fending off requests to
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alter a new design to mimic some older (and, by implication, inferior and
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baroque ) one. The case X = Pascal manifests semi-regularly on Usenet's
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comp.lang.c newsgroup. Indeed, the case X = X has been reported in
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discussions of graphics software (see X ).
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