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<a href="../T/toaster.html"><i class="glossterm">toaster</i></a> (which superseded it). During one period
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(1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardization
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committee) this was the canonical example of a really stupid,
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memory-limited computation environment. “<span class="quote">You can't require
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">printf</span>(3)</span>
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to be part of the default runtime library — what if you're targeting
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an elevator controller?</span>” Elevator controllers became important
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rhetorical weapons on both sides of several
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