From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Why it was a bad idea to drop The Mandate.
Date: 1997/12/18
Date: 1997-12-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67ats9$j3v$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gwinn-1512971946050001@dh5055057.res.ray.com
"I notice that you're using present tense. Would you expect
that the majority of C code written ten or fifteen years ago
will compile correctly on these modern compilers and run
successfully on a current UNIX or Windows machine?"
Said Bob Munck, replying to my claim that the C standard is
fairly well established.
<supposition mode>
I thought that the current C standard has been around for a few
years now. This is not to say of course, that programmers have
been following it's advise (just count how many programs don't
start with
int main (...
I don't know how much code would run. If it doesn't I don't
think it would be because of a fault of the language (although
I'm not sure exactly when the standard was finalised, or what
has changed since then).
<suppostion mode off>
Dale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-18 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-08 0:00 Why it was a bad idea to drop The Mandate Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-12-15 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-12-15 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-12-14 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1997-12-15 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-18 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
1997-12-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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