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- From: Bradd W. Szonye <bradds@ix.netcom.com>
- 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: 19 Apr 1996 08:46:10 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
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- On Monday, April 08, 1996, Robert Dewar wrote...
- > [...] In practice compiler vendors
- > often go to quite a bit of trouble to make sure that things that people
- > expect to work, do in fact work they way they expect, even if the
- standard
- > says that the behavior is undefined.
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- In the desktop computing world, where the IBM's and Microsofts send the
- standards instead of the ANSI's and ISO's, this concept is known as a "de
- facto standard." Translation from the Latin: it works 'cuz everybody does
- it that way, not 'cuz ISO-9899/1990 sez so.
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