From: laguest@archeia.com   
      
   On 02/05/2023 20:28, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
      
   >> This is true.  However, once one goes that route, one finds that   
   >> one is no longer writing in C, but in a dialect of C specific to   
   >> some project.  Granted, that dialect shares syntax and _most_ of   
   >> the semantics of C, but it's a dialect nonetheless.   
   >   
   > I would argue that there has never been a single dialect of   
   > C - even today one cannot write a useful and well performing   
   > application using just the facilities of standard C (toy   
   > programs, educational exercises, yes, real programs, not so   
   > much).   So we have two primary dialects, POSIX and Windows.   
      
   Wirth wrote Oberon in Oberon.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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