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: 10a146,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8775b19e3c68a5dc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fa0ae,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa0ae,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby) Subject: Re: Which language pays most? Smalltalk, not C++ nor Java. Date: 1998/01/03 Message-ID: <883858967snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 312509640 References: <34A8C6CC.3EC74017@acm.org> X-Mail2News-User: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: genesis.demon.co.uk X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 883865987 22350 fred genesis.demon.co.uk Organization: none Reply-To: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.ada,comp.edu Date: 1998-01-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <34A8C6CC.3EC74017@acm.org> pats@acm.org "Patricia Shanahan" writes: >Lawrence Kirby wrote: >> >> In article <34A812F9.C169A703@its.cl> gschwarz@its.cl "Guillermo Schwarz" > writes: >... >> >The point is, at least when I studied the good and old K&R, it didn't mention>> > >> >"reserved as identifiers with external linkage", that for me means "don't >> >touch this, >> >or trick"... >> >> K&R2 doesn't define the language. It is an excellent book but there do seem to>> be a few things it doesn't cover properly. The index lists "reserved words" >> but that just seems to refer to keywords. Even though it was revised after >> the standard was released it seems to be based mainly on a draft standard. >... > >"good and old K&R" may be K&R1, not K&R2. You may be right. I though it was probably K&R2 because C just wasn't defined that formally in the days of K&R1 so talking about "reserved as identifiers with external linkage" in that context doesn't make much sense. -- ----------------------------------------- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com -----------------------------------------