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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-20 10:51:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!news-east.rr.com!news-west.rr.com!lsnws01.we.mediaone.net!cyclone-LA3.rr.com!typhoon.san.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B586FB9.C0F65561@san.rr.com> From: Darren New Organization: Boxes! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? References: <3B59EE1C@MailAndNews.com> <9j74bj$lmp$8@news.tpi.pl> <9j796h$b2t$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9j7h4l$lpr$1@news.tpi.pl> <9j7iug$eb2$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9j7n3j$e8t$1@news.tpi.pl> <3B57676A.AB47237B@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:51:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.94.25.117 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.san.rr.com 995651511 24.94.25.117 (Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:51:51 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:51:51 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10364 Date: 2001-07-20T17:51:51+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article <3B57676A.AB47237B@san.rr.com>, Darren New says... > > > >And of course, the fact that I can run the same executable on DOS, > >Win3.1, Win98, WinNT, and Win2000 means nothing either. Sure. > > Actually, that's rarely the case. I think Win3.1 has a different exe format than > the rest. Even the Win32 OS'es have quite a few library differences between > them. If there are examples of this, they must be pretty simple programs. They have simple requirements. For example, I've been using the same jpeg compression routines since before Win3.1 was available. (Before it was available to me, at least. It might have been out there somewhere.) Read a file, write a file kind of stuff. Anything that does stdio.h type stuff works fine. > Certianly none of the 50 or so PC games I own have this capability. Games kind of tend to push the edge on what's legal programming and such, and they tend not to worry about whether they'll still run without changes in 5 years. I'd bet, however, that a PC game for Win3.1 is more likely to run under Win98 without recompiling than a UNIX game for Linux is likely to run under HP/UX or Solaris without recompiling. :-) -- Darren New / Senior MTS & Free Radical / Invisible Worlds Inc. San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. Only a WIMP puts wallpaper on his desktop.