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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