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- From: scs@eskimo.com (Steve Summit)
- Subject: Re: 16bit vs. 32bit
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- References: <315845E6.64FC@oc.com> <315BD1FA.2B34@cmt.lpr.mail.carel.fi> <315C1210.5621@oc.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 18:57:43 GMT
-
- In article <315C1210.5621@oc.com>, Larry Weiss <lfw@oc.com> writes:
- > Ari Lukumies wrote:
- >> Steve Summit wrote:
- >>> One of the whole points of using a high-level language is to
- >>> insulate you from low-level machine implementation details such
- >>> as the sizes of things in bits. If you find yourself needing to
- >>> know the sizes of things in bits, someone screwed up.
- >>
- >> Yeah. Maybe it was the guy who wrote the program in a 32-bit Unix machine
- >> seven years back that stores data in binary format to a file you now have to
- >> read in a 16-bit DOS machine?
-
- Indeed.
-
- > And, how did that programmer "screw up" ?
-
- By choosing a binary data file format, and condemning later
- programmers to use machine-dependent code if they wished to read
- it efficiently.
-
- Steve Summit
- scs@eskimo.com
-