From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby)
Subject: Re: Which language pays most? Smalltalk, not C++ nor Java.
Date: 1998/01/03
Date: 1998-01-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <883859370snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bd147e$11496760$6a28b4cf@carla.ici.net
In article <01bd147e$11496760$6a28b4cf@carla.ici.net>
carla@ici.net "Alicia Carla Longstreet" writes:
>John Porter wrote:
>: Robert Dewar wrote:
>: > OK, so your compiler can compile memfoo without compiling. Wunderbar!
>But
>: > that does NOT mean that you can actually go ahead and call a routine
>memfoo
>: > if the standard forbids it. To do so would be incompetent programming.
>
>: So now a "language" is not defined by the compiler -- or even by the
>: preprocessor+compiler+linker+etc, as some have it...
>: I am forbidden by a piece of paper from calling a function 'memfoo'!
>
>No the language is *not* defined by any single compiler, neither is it
>defined by any piece of paper. A language is defined by usage. A
>combination of compilers and the standard.
If you are saying that a piece of paper cannot define a language then you
are very, very wrong. If it can then it is perfectly reasonable to say
that the ISO standard document defines a language. It certainly claims
to define the C language and I can find no reason not to believe it (and
I have questioned many things in it).
>The ISO Standard defines the core of the language.
Thet's true. Where you go wrong is then saying that the C language is
some nebulous thing that is much larger than that.
> Any C compiler *must*
>support this common core, but it may also support various extensions to
>support the specifics of its platform.
That is true.
> Just like the English language is
>not 'defined' by any single dictionary, rather the dictionary is a
>'snapshot' of the language (or part of the language) at a particular point
>in time.
You are trying to apply the attributes of a natural language to a technical
language. Technical languages have precise definitions and that is simply
not a valid thing to do.
>Similarly the ANSI/ISO Standard is a snapshot of the common core of the C
>language. The language itself continues to grow and evolve.
That was true up until standardisation. Since standardisation the language
evolves as the standard evolves. That's why standardisation is such a
significant point in a languages evolution.
> Actually C9X
>recognizes this but preparing a new 'snapshot' of the language (or at least
>the core).
C9X recognises that the C language needs to evolve and is the vehicle
for that evolution.
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Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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1997-12-17 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1997-12-16 0:00 ` steve
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[not found] ` <01bd0c0b$53cc1860$26db45cf@juddesk>
1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-18 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-19 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-22 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-12-21 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-28 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-12-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-12-17 0:00 ` steve
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1997-12-18 0:00 ` steve
1997-12-19 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-12-18 0:00 ` steve
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1997-12-22 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1997-12-21 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-12-21 0:00 ` steve
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1997-12-28 0:00 ` John Winters
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1999-08-09 0:00 ` Paul Groves
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