In article <87tyl63cag....@mail.geddis.org>, Don Geddis <d...@geddis.org> wrote:
> 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 > > Message-ID: > <0497e39d-6bd1-429d-a86f-f4c89babe...@u31g2000pru.googlegroups.com> > 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. > [...] > > ______________________________________________________________________________ > _ > Don Geddis http://don.geddis.org/ > d...@geddis.org Thanks, Don. rg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
