New US Rep to ISO C

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Wed Apr 26 12:31:57 AEST 1989


In article <39709 at think.UUCP> barmar at kulla.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>... many of the members are multinational corporations, and it
>would be expensive for them to have to produce different versions of
>their products for domestic and foreign use.  They can generally be
>convinced when national security is used as the excuse (e.g. the
>prohibition against exporting Unix crypt()), but they'll balk at
>childish not-invented-here syndrome...

As opposed to the prohibition on exporting crypt(1), which is childish
invented-here syndrome...   :-) :-) :-)
-- 
Mars in 1980s:  USSR, 2 tries, |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
2 failures; USA, 0 tries.      | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry at zoo.toronto.edu



More information about the Comp.std.c mailing list