Greg A Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> BTW, the only reason lots of recent code can't compile in K&R mode is
> because its authors are either lazy, or ignorant (of C's heritage), or
> both!  ;-)

One of the primary motivations for switching INN to ANSI C is that most of
the contributors were used to writing ANSI C, not K&R C, and trying to
maintain a K&R source base would involve tons of extra work for the
maintainers rewriting all that code.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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