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- From: emery@grebyn.com (David Emery)
- 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: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 20:09:16 -0700
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Message-ID: <emery-1904962009160001@line025.nwm.mindlink.net>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <DppsHq.1Ar@world.std.com> <829279436snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> <dewar.829346082@schonberg> <4knr5l$gb1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <dewar.829400155@schonberg> <01bb2dd0.a8395e00$c6c2b7c7@Zany.localhost>
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- People who have read both documents have told me that the POSIX.5 standard
- is substantially more readable/usable than the POSIX.1 standard.
- (-I- certainly think so, but my opinion is biased in this area.)
-
- Before anyone asserts "standards are unreadable", I suggest that they look
- at something more than the current batch of C standards, which set a
- mediocre example, IMHO.
-
- dave
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