From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Alan E & Carmel J Brain Subject: Re: Porting (was ADA and Pascal etc) Date: 1997/11/01 Message-ID: <345BA629.3FF6@dynamite.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286323697 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> <3456b9f3.0@news.eznet.net> <3456e71b.3833189@news.mindspring.com> <3459AC95.1D75@dynamite.com.au> <63bhta$g2e@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> <345AB871.413A@dynamite.com.au> Organization: @home Reply-To: aebrain@dynamite.com.au Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1997-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB wrote: > > > > Sounds like you may have been a victim of the run of your patients. > > > Well written C code is very portable. I've seen compiler upgrades > > > break code, but only because it was trash to begin with. > > > > May I respectfully offer a counterexample? Example -->8--------- > > I do not consider the above code to be "trash". > Note that he says C code, not C++. I noticed this _after_ posting. Mea Culpa. Open mouth, insert foot... Never mind, I think the post made a useful point. -- aebrain@dynamite.com.au <> <> How doth the little Crocodile | Alan & Carmel Brain| xxxxx Improve his shining tail? | Canberra Australia | xxxxxHxHxxxxxx _MMMMMMMMM_MMMMMMMMM abrain@cs.adfa.oz.au o OO*O^^^^O*OO o oo oo oo oo By pulling MAERKLIN Wagons, in 1/220 Scale