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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 3 Mar 1996 00:12:42 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
- Message-ID: <4hbd8q$ral@solutions.solon.com>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <4gvrffINNlqo@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <4h4j31$1ga3@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <TANMOY.96Feb29144112@qcd.lanl.gov>
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- In article <TANMOY.96Feb29144112@qcd.lanl.gov>,
- Tanmoy Bhattacharya <tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov> wrote:
- >And yes, there are free software writers who have stopped writing
- >pre-ANSI code on grounds of `portability'.
-
- Although the FSF still largely supports pre-ANSI compilers, RMS
- did some surveying last year and asserted that support of
- pre-ANSI systems is no longer worth any effort.
-
- >NHC: A feature to report any failure to conform to ANSI C might be useful
- >NHC: in some instances, but would require considerable additional work and
- >NHC: would be quite different from '-pedantic'. We recommend, rather,
- >NHC: that users take advantage of the extensions of GNU C and disregard
- >NHC: the limitations of other compilers. Aside from certain
- >NHC: supercomputers and obsolete small machines, thre is less and less
- >NHC: reason ever to use any other C compiler other than for bootstrapping
- >NHC: GNU CC.
-
- >That is clear arrogance. And, hopefully, there are enough vendors who
- >will stop this from happening.
-
- It is more politics than arrogance. RMS would like to see all non-free
- software lose the software war; if there is free software that requires
- gcc to compile it, other compilers will (it is hoped) fall out of favor.
-
- I disagree with him; however, he has produced more good material than
- most people ever do, so I'm inclined to tolerance.
-
- The GNU coding standards are significantly too enthusiastic about what
- assumptions to make, although they're probably reasonable for, say,
- workstations.
-
- >A minuscule community can have a well defined culture. A large and
- >varied community cannot.
-
- This is true; compare the amiga user community to the pc/dos user
- community.
-
- -s
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- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach.
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