If you want X, you know where to find it.

If you want X, you know where to find it.  There is a legend
   that Dennis Ritchie, inventor of {C}, once responded to demands
   for features resembling those of what at the time was a much more
   popular language by observing "If you want PL/I, 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 {baroque}) one.  The case X =
   {Pascal} manifests semi-regularly on Usenet's comp.lang.c
   newsgroup.  Indeed, the case X = X has been reported in discussions
   of graphics software (see {X}).



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