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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada) Date: 1996/04/20 Message-ID: <4l9uoo$5t1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 150451578 references: <4k9qhe$65r@solutions.solon.com> <828964950snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <4kbfup$2vd@news1.mnsinc.com> <4kbl5i$p3@mordred.gatech.edu> <4kbr5q$j1l@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <01bb2dcd.d9f24720$c6c2b7c7@Zany.localhost> organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Bradd W. Szonye 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 | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.