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- From: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 18:24:01 GMT
- Organization: SGI
- Message-ID: <AUSTERN.96Feb26102401@isolde.mti.sgi.com>
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- In-reply-to: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com's message of 26 Feb 1996 17:45:55 GMT
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- In article <AUSTERN.96Feb26094555@isolde.mti.sgi.com> austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern) writes:
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- > C does not have a boolean type, but C++ does. It was added precisely
- > because every language was defining its own boolean type: it was clear
- > that a standard boolean type was needed for the sake of avoiding name
- > clashes.
-
- This is a typo, of course. It should read "every library was defining
- its own boolean type."
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- Matt Austern
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