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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: 20 Apr 1996 19:50:02 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
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- On Saturday, April 20, 1996, Fergus Henderson wrote...
- > 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!
- >
- > 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"
- > PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S.
- Garp.
- >
-
- Oops, didn't mean to make myself look like an idiot. I wasn't trying to
- tell Fergus that he was wrong, I was rather agreeing with him that I
- strongly disagreed with the post before him.
-
- Class term project:
- Write a yacc parser to disambiguate what I just said.
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