资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
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
{news:comp.lang.c} {newsgroup}. Indeed, the case X = X has
been reported in discussions of graphics software (see {X
Window System}).
[{Jargon File}]
(1995-10-25)