Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org> wrote on Thu, 30 Sep 2010:
> RG <rnospa...@flownet.com> writes:
>> You're missing a lot of context.  I'm not trying to criticize C, just to 
>> refute a false claim that was made about it.
> Can you cite the article that made this false claim, and exactly what
> the false claim was?

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/431925448da59481

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        From: TheFlyingDutchman <zzbba...@aol.com>
        Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp

        [...]
        in C I can have a function maximum(int a, int b) that will always
        work. Never blow up, and never give an invalid answer. If someone
        tries to call it incorrectly it is a compile error.
        [...]

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