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   Michael S to Keith Thompson   
   Re: New and improved version of cdecl   
   27 Oct 25 00:34:14   
   
   From: already5chosen@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:56:56 -0700   
   Keith Thompson  wrote:   
      
   > Michael S  writes:   
   > > On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:20:45 -0700   
   > > Keith Thompson  wrote:   
   > [...]   
   > >> Free software still has to be usable.  cdecl is usable for most of   
   > >> us.   
   > >>   
   > >> [...]   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > > I'd say that it is not sufficiently usable for most of us to   
   > > actually use it.   
   >   
   > Why do you say that?   
   >   
      
   I would guess that less than 1 per cent of C programmers ever used it   
   and less than 5% of those who used it once continued to use it   
   regularly.   
   All numbers pulled out of thin air...   
      
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