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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: 12 Apr 1996 17:55:47 -0400
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- Tom said
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- "imho, expecting read() to stop at the end of the file, despite asking it to
- read 1000 bytes is being liberal with what you give out."
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- No doubt about that, but always remember that it is trivial to write
- portable code in any language if you have the capability of making
- 100% sure that you only use portable constructs! Unfortunately, almost
- no large project I have seen has this capability.
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