| If you want X, you know where to find it. There is a legend that , inventor of , once responded to demands for features resembling those of what at the time was a much more popular language by observing "If you want , you know where to find it." Ever since, this has been hackish standard form for fending off requests to alter a new design to mimic some older (and, by implication, inferior and ) one. The case X = manifests semi-regularly on 's {news:comp.lang.c} . Indeed, the case X = X has been reported in discussions of graphics software (see ). [] (1995-10-25) |
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