# Variable Scope

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- Started by LingWitt@insightbb.com on 2003-08-31T02:28:21+00:00
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## #4300 — LingWitt@insightbb.com — 2003-08-31T02:28:21+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/4300#4300

I was sincere. I meant "modern" to mean more recent. Though, I do agree 
with the correlation between your interpretation and response. I 
apologize.

On Saturday, Aug 30, 2003, at 21:44 America/New_York, George 
Schlossnagle wrote:

>
> On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 09:12  PM, LingWitt@insightbb.com 
> wrote:
>
> > […]
>
> No need to be a dick about it.  Calling C++ 'modern' is about as 
> sensible as calling C 'ancient'.  Plenty of applications and operating 
> systems are still written in C (not C++).  Apache, PHP, Perl, Linux 
> and FreeBSD are some examples.  Rasmus responded correctly to your 
> question by noting that PHP's for() syntax is identical to C's for() 
> syntax.  Which it is.