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- From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
- 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: 13 Apr 1996 09:12:21 GMT
- Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4knr5l$gb1@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <DppsHq.1Ar@world.std.com> <829279436snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> <dewar.829346082@schonberg>
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- In article <dewar.829346082@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >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.
-
- If the project managers want to use software standards to help
- ensure portability, there's no barrier I'm aware of that keeps
- them from using standard semantics for the system-independent
- parts of their projects. In many cases this greatly reduces
- porting effort for most of the source.
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- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
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