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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 23:43:22 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:11:46 +0200, David Brown wrote:

> On 21/08/2024 09:38, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:26:41 +0200, David Brown wrote:
>> 
>>> And you don't need to know anything about Linux, UNIX or POSIX to
>>> program in C.
>> 
>> I think the point has been made on comp.lang.c more than once, that C
>> without POSIX can be a very dull language indeed ...
> 
> It was wrong on comp.lang.c, and it is wrong here.  Proof by repeated
> assertion is not valid.

It came up repeatedly because of repeated examples where it was true.