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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>If you want X, you know where to find it.</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="IDP.html" title="IDP"/><link rel="next" href="ifdef-out.html" title="ifdef out"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">If you want X, you know where to find it.</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="IDP.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ifdef-out.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="If-you-want-X--you-know-where-to-find-it-"/><dt xmlns="" id="If-you-want-X--you-know-where-to-find-it-"><b>If you want X, you know where to find it.</b></dt></dt><dd><p> There is a legend that Dennis Ritchie, inventor of
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<a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a>, once responded to demands for features resembling
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those of what at the time was a much more popular language by observing
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“<span class="quote">If you want PL/I, you know where to find it.</span>” Ever since,
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this has been hackish standard form for fending off requests to alter a new
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design to mimic some older (and, by implication, inferior and
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<a href="../B/baroque.html"><i class="glossterm">baroque</i></a>) one. The case X =
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<a href="../P/Pascal.html"><i class="glossterm">Pascal</i></a> manifests semi-regularly on Usenet's
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<tt class="systemitem">comp.lang.c</tt> newsgroup. Indeed,
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the case X = X has been reported in discussions of graphics software (see
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<a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="IDP.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ifdef-out.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">IDP </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ifdef out</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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