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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 4 Mar 1996 08:52:36 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4hf74kINNdpi@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <4h8233$c7p$1@canberra.DIALix.oz.au> <4h8mq3INNmr9@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <4hdv3t$911@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
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- In article <4hdv3t$911@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>,
- Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> wrote:
- >The problem is not that people _can't_ develop conforming compilers, it's that
- >unless and until the market pushes hard enough, they _don't_. I have been
- >received ads for "ANSI-compliant C++ compilers" for some time now, despite
- >the absence at the time of an actual ANSI standard for C++. Many customers
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- I think that what they mean is that the C subset accepted by the C++ compiler
- is ANSI conforming; i.e. the C++ is just an extension over the ANSI C core.
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- Marketing...
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