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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- 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: Sat, 06 Apr 96 21:23:26 GMT
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- Message-ID: <828825806snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <emery-0404962003250001@line084.nwm.mindlink.net>
- emery@grebyn.com "David Emery" writes:
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- >In article <828632277snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>, fred@genesis.demon.co.uk wrote:
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- >...
- >> it is the UNIX standard that define the UNIX system interface with
- >> reference to the ANSI C standard.
- >...
- >Exactly so, POSIX.1 depends on ANSI C, but the converse is NOT true.
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- True, but I don't think the converse was under discussion.
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- POSIX.1 depends (if you like) on ANSI C but ANSI C doesn't define POSIX.1.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
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