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- From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
- 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: 20 Apr 1996 06:04:08 GMT
- Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne
- Message-ID: <4l9uoo$5t1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Bradd W. Szonye <bradds@ix.netcom.com> writes:
-
- >On Monday, April 08, 1996, Fergus Henderson wrote...
- >> james@amber.biology.gatech.edu (James McIninch) writes:
- >>
- >> >Szu-Wen Huang (huang@mnsinc.com) wrote:
- >> >: Shouldn't true portability mean that even bugs are cross-platform and
- >> >: fail reliably? ;)
- >> >
- >> >No.
- >>
- >> I strongly disagree -- Szu-Wen Huang is right.
- >
- >Wrong!
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- I think you have been confused by a double negative, and that your
- "Wrong!" comment was directed at the viewpoint espoused by James
- McInich, with which I was disagreeing.
-
- >As a developer, I *wish* that bugs were reproducible enough to
- >actually be portable. Would make the little devils a lot easier to find.
-
- I fully agree.
-
- --
- Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> | "I have always known that the pursuit
- WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | of excellence is a lethal habit"
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