From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Streams and Concurrency
Date: 1999/01/04
Date: 1999-01-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76qpl6$2ig$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 76qb23$ba3$1@platane.wanadoo.fr
In article <76qb23$ba3$1@platane.wanadoo.fr>,
"Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Of course not, but that particular exemple used
> Text_Streams and I took this opportunity to remind people
> of this often overlooked problem. Why, if it works on
> most compilers ? Because I hate concealed design
> decisions. Choosing between portability and efficiency
> (or in this case, ease of programming) is a trade-off,
> and it is perfectly acceptable to disregard portability
> as long as it is a concious design decision. But as you
> noticed, often people make this choice without
> being aware of it, and *this* is (IMHO) very bad.
But of course when you call a foreign language routine of
any kind AT ALL, you are implementation dependent. This is
the only issue we are talking about here!
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-30 0:00 Streams and Concurrency James S. Rogers
1998-12-29 0:00 ` David Botton
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-30 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1998-12-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-30 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-30 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-30 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
1999-01-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-31 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dewar
1998-12-31 0:00 ` Ada-G, was " Tom Moran
1999-01-01 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-01-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-08 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-01-08 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-01 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-08 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-01-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dewar
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-01-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-11 0:00 ` Bulk synchronous model for IO (was Re: Streams and Concurrency) Kevin Rigotti
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