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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
- Date: 6 Apr 1996 00:19:40 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
- Message-ID: <4k52ds$3q4@solutions.solon.com>
- References: <dewar.828704810@schonberg> <828716998snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <dewar.828757565@schonberg>
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- In article <dewar.828757565@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >"Certainly. In order for an OS to be able to call itself UNIX(tm) it must
- >be validated again standards such as POSIX and SPEC1170."
-
- >There is no official validation procedure for POSIX, and in any case
- >Unix does not have to support POSIX (almost no unixes to day are
- >fully POSIX compliant, I am not sure that *any* are 100% complaint).
-
- Well, then what precisely did the Linux people use to base their recent
- announcement on? I suppose the US government departments that require POSIX
- compliant OS's are just flipping coins?
-
- >I do not know what SPEC1170 is???
-
- *sigh* It's a vast list of basically every function ever offered by a Unix
- like environment, in one vast spec. It's at least a few months old, and
- you can look it up in bookstores on CD-ROM.
-
- >Maybe you are using "validation" in some odd non-standard sense??
-
- Maybe you're just assuming that C and Unix haven't develope since 1983?
-
- -s
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