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>the members of the committee were rubbing their hands at the thought of all the optimizations the poorly specified ambiguous successive versions of the documen
by Kristine1975 10y ago
>the members of the committee were rubbing their hands at the thought of all the optimizations the poorly specified ambiguous successive versions of the document would allow:
I couldn't find that in the blog post you linked?
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- pascal_cuoq 10y agoYou are right. Either I was thinking of another comment by Derek Jones (one of the two persons I know on the C standardization committee, which is otherwise quite opaque) or I projected my own image of a patiently malevolent committee on the phrase “doing stuff that we could only dream about back in the day” that he did not mean this way. I have edited my comment.