USENET and spam (Was: Re: transpiling to low level C)

"Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:

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The atomic exchange allows one to get at the previous object or word
in the atomic anchor. God, it's been a long time. 2005 I remember
being on this group, comp.programming.threads, before it got nuked
with spam... Yikes!

Welcome back.  Since Google Groups has left, I've been experiencing a
great USENET once again.  It's much quieter, but the level of expertise
is still higher than any other discussion forums I can see from here.
And although it's quieter, I can hardly keep up with the few groups I
tend to read.