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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).