From: Charles Hixson <charleshixson@earthling.net>
To: Michael F Brenner <mfb@mbunix.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Ultimate Language feature list
Date: 1998/05/14
Date: 1998-05-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <355B0767.35DE41D4@earthling.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6jer8o$l98@top.mitre.org
This is where language appendixes are important: They allow one to
define the standard form that features should take were they present,
but frequently do not demand that all implementations support them.
E.g., database semantics NEED to be defined, but many applications have
no use for them.
Michael F Brenner wrote:
>
> It is interesting that the original feature list is dynamic
> (garbage collection, etc.) and as opposed to static, and is
> therefore an ideal system to use for non-realtime systems.
> Several of the features in the list would be unusable for
> satellites that must continually fly for dozens of years.
>
...
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Charles Hixson charleshixson@earthling.net
(510) 464-7733 or chixso@mtc.dst.ca.us
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-05-13 0:00 Ultimate Language feature list adam
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Rainer Joswig
1998-05-14 0:00 ` John English
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Charles Hixson [this message]
1998-05-14 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
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1998-05-13 0:00 MSG
1998-05-13 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Eugene Mayevski
1998-05-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-13 0:00 ` Mark K. Gardner
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Jussi Santti
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Chris Miller
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Franck Arnaud
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Stephen Bull
1998-05-20 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-05-16 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
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