From: munck@Mill-Creek-Systems.com (Robert Munck)
Subject: Re: Why it was a bad idea to drop The Mandate.
Date: 1997/12/15
Date: 1997-12-15T20:10:23+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34958d72.6177457@news.mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 67243l$n0t$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au
On 15 Dec 1997 02:19:33 GMT, Dale Stanbrough
<dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> wrote:
>... C or C++ ... compilers are obsolete, are
> no longer supported, and the language definition
> has changed.
>
>I would be truly surprised if this was the case for C. There
>is a standard for C, which is very well known, and for which
>there would be many compilers which are up to the mark.
I notice that you're using present tense. Would you expect
that the majority of C code written ten or fifteen years ago
will compile correctly on these modern compilers and run
successfully on a current UNIX or Windows machine?
Bob Munck
Mill Creek Systems LC
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-08 0:00 Why it was a bad idea to drop The Mandate Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-12-15 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-12-15 0:00 ` Robert Munck [this message]
1997-12-14 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1997-12-15 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-18 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-12-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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