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- From: sherborn@mail.amsinc.com (Steve Herborn)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Opinions on Visual C/C++
- Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 19:28:41 GMT
- Organization: American Management Systems
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- softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- wrote:
-
- >John Grant (jagrant@emr1.emr.ca) wrote:
-
- >: On the other hand, "VISUAL C++" is NOT A LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- >But look at it the other way:
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- >At what point do extensions to the language make it a new
- >language instead of a version of an existing language?
- >Borland and Microsoft and GNU and all of them have so
- >many extensions you have to set switches to get ANSI
- >C compatibility.
-
- >Scott
-
- Valid point Scott! As far as I'm concerned once you use any of the
- extensions of any product you are coding in a different langauge then
- as described in it's ANSI standard (if it has one).
-
- Steve
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