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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: Lawrence Kirby Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/04/02 Message-ID: <828445854snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 145418069 x-nntp-posting-host: genesis.demon.co.uk references: <31582A63.4BE9@east.thomsoft.com> <4jeel1$erh@tpd.dsccc.com> <4jp388$d56@tpd.dsccc.com> x-mail2news-path: genesis.demon.co.uk organization: none reply-to: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4jp388$d56@tpd.dsccc.com> kcline@sun132.spd.dsccc.com "Kevin Cline" writes: >As usual, you missed the point, Jon. Different Ada-83 compiler vendors >provided different bindings to key functionality like UNIX OS calls >and X/Motif. Of course these bindings were proprietary. > >This was never a problem for C code. ANSI-C compilers have been available >for every platform you can name for many years, so porting C code from >one vendor's compiler to another was never a big problem. ANSI C doesn't define UNIX OS calls so isn't really relevant to your point. Unix calls are reasonably standardised for C through the likes of POSIX and X/Open which is natural because C is the core development language for the platform. -- ----------------------------------------- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com -----------------------------------------