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- From: Larry Weiss <lfw@oc.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:24:57 -0600
- Organization: crystalball.com
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- Pete Becker wrote:
- >
- > In article <312FDB27.4B83@inav.net>, rainbow@inav.net says...
- > >
- > >Ray Toal wrote:
- > >>
- > >> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe) wrote:
- > >>
- > >> >(4) C++ in particular has been changing very rapidly. It seems as if
- > every
- > >> > time I turn around there is a new keyword.
- > >
- > >What is the status of the plain/ordinary/but very noticably forgotten
- > boolean?
- > >
- > >It seems that the biggest difficutly that run into is that everybody
- > needs/wants to
- > >declare a new version (and they are not all compatible!). Because C/C++ were
- > never
- > >polite enough to provide it to begin with (0 or non-zero is hardly a good
- > substitute)
- > >we end up either creating the (ITEM, NON_ITEM) form, create yet another
- > version
- > >(my latest is BooleaN, { FalsE, TruE } ). I think I remember something about
- > >BOOL in one of the C or C++ stds. Which compilers use it? (Borland does
- > not,
- > >at least thru 4.0).
- > >
- > >As you can tell from the tone of this post, I would be much happier to have a
- > language
- > >that provides a few comforts and niceties, i.e., Ada, but I haven't yet been
- > able to
- > >convince my cohorts and managers to come along.
- >
- > BOOL is a Windowsism. It's a typedef for an int. C++ has a type bool, which is
- > supported in BC++ 5.0.
- > -- Pete
-