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: 103376,b446a49184d9e9e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Dale Stanbrough Subject: Re: Why it was a bad idea to drop The Mandate. Date: 1997/12/18 Message-ID: <67ats9$j3v$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 299326519 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <97120812101591@psavax.pwfl.com> <34958d72.6177457@news.mindspring.com> X-XXMessage-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Distribution: world Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-12-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "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. 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). Dale