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- From: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.050157.27372@ima.isc.com>
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- References: <id.I12T.GP4@ferranti.com> <a_rubin.716152347@dn66> <1992Sep11.174618.6049@umbc3.umbc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 05:01:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.174618.6049@umbc3.umbc.edu> hybl@umbc4.umbc.edu (Dr. Albert Hybl (UMAB-BIOPHYS)) writes:
- >>when the standard doesn't define the result, the implementations can do
- >>whatever they want.
- >
- >Well the suicide gene has been spliced into ANSI C, has it. This suggests
- >that the lawyers and business administration types have legally colluded []
- >to produce an inadequate language standard thus allowing each vendor to write
- >compilers that contain proprietary extensions.
-
- I don't understand what you find inadequate here. Is it the fact that
- undefined behavior exists? That it's possible for a compiler to conform to
- the standard and also support extensions? Or are you talking about this
- particular issue (integer overflow)? What change would you like to have
- seen in the Standard?
-
- Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint
- (Followups to comp.std.c)
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