Re: Why foo and bar in every tutorial i read?



Arndt Jonasson said:

I looked for "comp.lang.c charter" with Google

That sounds a bit pointless, since it doesn't have one.

and found this
on ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/control/comp/comp.lang.c:

From news@xxxxxxxxxxx Thu May 23 13:33:04 1991
Path: rpi!think.com!compass!news
From: news@xxxxxxxxxxx (news)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c.ctl

That's a control file, not a charter.

Subject: newgroup comp.lang.c
Message-ID: <5610@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 23 May 91 16:11:45 GMT
Control: newgroup comp.lang.c
Distribution: world
Organization: Compass, Inc., Wakefield, MA
Lines: 1
Approved: news@xxxxxxxxxxx

Discussion about C.

There are perhaps better places to look, not to say newer, but do you
mean the description "Discussion about C" is wrong?

It's not a charter, but at least it's an accurate description of what we
discuss here: the C language. Not Unix. Not Windows. Not threads. Not
ASCII. Not sockets. Just C.


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