From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, July 9, 2021 at 4:53:17 AM UTC+10, Joe Monk wrote:   
      
   > > It is not a reproduction. That is why some mainframers   
   > > have bitterly complained.   
   > >   
   > C existed on the mainframe long before you started any of your work. Fact.   
      
   I started work on PDPCLIB in 1994, so yes, there were   
   C implementations on the mainframe before I started.   
   Before IBM started too, in fact.   
      
   > Anything you are doing with C on the mainframe is merely   
   > reproducing that which was already done. Fact.   
      
   No, that is not a "fact". IBM with C/370 didn't merely reproduce   
   the various existing C compilers on MVS either. Nor did GCC.   
   Nor did PDPCLIB. All of these are unique implementations.   
      
   If you wish to state that the very first mainframe C compiler,   
   probably by Ritchie, was the only unique C compiler, and   
   everything else is merely a reproduction of that, BY DEFINITION,   
   then that is a semantic debate, and I am happy for you to   
   win that debate. And you may as well say that every   
   computer "merely" reproduced Babbage's work too. In fact,   
   you may as well say that everyone just reproduced Adam's   
   (of "Adam and Eve" fame) work. I mean, Adam farted   
   thousands of years ago, Babbage farted too, therefore   
   everything Babbage did his entire life was "merely" a   
   reproduction of what Adam did.   
      
   Is there a point to any of this? ie are you trying to point out   
   that life is pointless so we should all stop working and head   
   to Bondi?   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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