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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Opinions on Visual C/C++
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- Date: 5 Mar 1996 13:28:24 GMT
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- John Grant (jagrant@emr1.emr.ca) wrote:
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- : On the other hand, "VISUAL C++" is NOT A LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- But look at it the other way:
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- At what point do extensions to the language make it a new
- language instead of a version of an existing language?
- Borland and Microsoft and GNU and all of them have so
- many extensions you have to set switches to get ANSI
- C compatibility.
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- Scott
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