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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
- 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: 8 Apr 1996 14:28:33 -0400
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- Peter Seebach says
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- "Assumably, there is [a formal set of testing procedures for Unix compliance]"
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- I never heard of such a set of tests, but of course they could still well
- exist! But "assumably" [entertaining portmanteau word :-)] is not good
- enough to answer this. Doesn't *anyone* know anything about the procedures
- here.
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- Peter Seebach's claims about trademarks are most peculiar, certainly not
- even vaguely correct in the US (where you could never manage to trademark
- Wednesday -- in fact the trademark of Ada was in all likelihood never valid!)
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