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- From: ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au (Ramses Youhana)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 07:14:46 GMT
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- Haug Buerger (haug@zesi.ruhr.de) wrote:
- > The Right Reverend Colin James III (cjames@melchizedek.cec-services.com) wrote:
- > ...
- > : 1. C/C++ compilers which are industrial quality with professional
- > : support are cheaper than the expensive, vendor-gouging Ada ones;
- > ...
- > : 6. ANSI C code is portable to thousands more discrete platforms than
- > : is Ada (at about 900 platforms, counting some multiple times).
-
- > Would you say Borland C/C++ is a professional compiler? It's
- > cheap, that's true but that's all. It's not eaven a real ANSI C
- > compiler. Some funktions do not work like the ANSI standard says
- > and it's documented. Everybody thinks it's an ANSI C compiler
- > because there is no test suite for ANSI C and everybody can say
- > he has an ANSI C compiler.
-
- Which version of Borland C/C++ and what ANSI-C functions are you
- talking about?
-
- Personally I've used Borland C/C++ version 3.1 and s far I'm very
- happy with it. I've also got version 4.5 but haven't used it yet
- because I don't have a CD-ROM drive at this stage so I can't install
- it on my PC yet. Sure it has some bugs, but then again so does
- the Microsoft C version 7.0 and so do many other software packages
- out there.
-
- Ramses.
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