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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by wglb on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @08:05PM (#1263750)
There was a hacker news discussion a while back by one of the principals of Coverity in which they asserted, with no small experience, that there is no such thing as a C language. This is due to the wide number of variations in what compilers accept and that users of C compilers expect.

Sure there is an ideal, but practically, there is not consistent definition of the C language.

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Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by sparky on Wednesday April 14, 2010 @01:31AM (#1264223)
The article discussed was this one in CACM (link is to discussion on Lambda the Ultimate) http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3824 . I remember seeing it on HN too, but couldn't find the page immediately.
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