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A comment on The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987).

Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by pwdisswordfish2 on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:27AM (#23283685)
> Beware, in particular, of the subtle and terrible ``All the world's a 32-bit machine'', which is almost true today but shall cease to be so before thy resume grows too much longer.

That’s cute. What year was it written?

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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by mellosouls on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:31AM (#23283732)
1987 by the look of it.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.c/CYgWkWdWCc...

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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by qubex on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:14PM (#23285057)
Yeah... the reference to the abundance of VAXen isn’t something one encounters often this side of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by pwdisswordfish2 on Saturday May 23, 2020 @03:23PM (#23285623)
Which side is that?
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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by Y_Y on Saturday May 23, 2020 @04:21PM (#23286045)
The outside
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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by pwdisswordfish2 on Saturday May 23, 2020 @07:07PM (#23287431)
What about HN readers/commenters on the inside?
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