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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,bdaddde464f6e704 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,bdaddde464f6e704 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman) Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability Date: 1996/11/18 Message-ID: <56q0kp$ma0@halon.vggas.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 197233462 references: <3294e64b.74799475@news2.ibm.net> <32b09c4c.252526073@news2.ibm.net> content-type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: VG Gas Analysis Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1996-11-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <32b09c4c.252526073@news2.ibm.net>, cjames3@ibm.net says... >All new development in US banks with European branches is in C++ back end >and many front ends (none in Eiffel that I know of). This is partly due to >C with its silly pointers not scaling well and mostly due to floating point >problems at run time in C. The runtime behaviour of C++ has just the same pros and cons as that of C. Is that your hat you are talking out of? Funny place to wear it... -- James Youngman VG Gas Analysis Systems |The trouble with the rat-race Before sending advertising material, read |is, even if you win, you're http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html|still a rat.