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: fac41,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,dad65365cb2b3396 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: ghughes@cs.ucsb.edu (Graham C. Hughes) Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability Date: 1996/12/01 Message-ID: <57rgc3$rnh@booboo.cs.ucsb.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 201681549 references: <3294e64b.74799475@news2.ibm.net> <56t1m4$nis@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <1996Nov20.065345.1@eisner> <1996Nov22.074528.1@eisner> organization: Computer Science, UCSB newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >OK, but here are only two examples, which kind of proves my point. Of these, I'm going out on a wing here, but do Crays use IEEE? Crays have a long and established tradition of going their own separate ways on many things (_Computer Organization and Design_ by Patterson and Hennessy mentions the ... amusing ability of a Cray to generate a floating-point overflow when computing z/x if x is very small but not zero). And nobody's going to claim you don't use Crays for serious work. If Java fails to work on Crays, it makes my day ;) Graham -- Graham Hughes ``I think it would be a good idea.'' -- Mahatma Ghandi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization finger for PGP public key.