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From: Bradd W. Szonye <bradds@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: RE: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
Date: 1996/04/20
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Date: 1996-04-20T14:50:02-05:00
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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.