From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
Subject: Re: Size and pack
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:58:18 -0500
Date: 2001-11-01T14:58:20+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9rrnuc$9ke$1@nh.pace.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hw2E7.163731$vq.40606082@typhoon.ne.mediaone.net
It ought to be observed that it is not possible for any language to be 100%
portable across all platforms and in all cases - ESPECIALLY once you start
tinkering with machine specific things like data representations. Once you
take off the pannel that is marked "Caution! No User Servicable Parts
Inside." all bets are off.
MDC
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"Jeff Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com> wrote in message
news:Hw2E7.163731$vq.40606082@typhoon.ne.mediaone.net...
>
> As for the "Standardization" troll comment..There are many things in the
> standard
> that are not directly specified or are specified in terms of dependencies
on
> the
> host architecture. (Word size, etc).. This is not Java. There is no
standard
> Ada
> virtual machine that forces all applications to run 5-30 times slower than
> a native implementation (see I can troll too!).
>
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-10 8:05 Size and pack Adrian Hoe
2001-10-10 8:59 ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-10-10 9:50 ` John McCabe
2001-10-11 6:36 ` Adrian Hoe
2001-10-11 8:55 ` John McCabe
2001-10-31 1:53 ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-31 1:50 ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-31 9:17 ` John McCabe
2001-10-31 11:58 ` Jeff Creem
2001-11-01 1:58 ` Adrian Hoe
2001-11-01 2:34 ` Jeff Creem
2001-11-01 14:58 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
2001-11-01 3:53 ` Matthew Heaney
2001-11-01 18:37 ` Jeff Creem
2001-11-02 3:39 ` Robert Dewar
2001-11-01 3:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-01 6:00 ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-10 9:24 ` Pi
2001-10-10 9:27 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-10-11 6:24 ` Adrian Hoe
2001-10-11 8:58 ` John McCabe
2001-10-11 13:20 ` Mark Johnson
2001-10-11 16:23 ` John McCabe
2001-10-11 16:00 ` Pat Rogers
2001-10-12 8:37 ` John McCabe
2001-10-28 1:30 ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-11 9:30 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-10-11 10:12 ` Vincent Smeets
2001-10-11 10:19 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-10-11 11:18 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-10-11 12:06 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-10-11 13:49 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-26 4:00 ` Smark
2001-10-26 6:14 ` tmoran
2001-10-26 17:51 ` Smark
2001-10-26 23:21 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-26 23:39 ` tmoran
2001-10-29 1:01 ` Adrian Hoe
2001-10-29 2:21 ` tmoran
2001-10-29 10:42 ` Adrian Hoe
2001-10-29 23:15 ` tmoran
2001-10-29 9:52 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-10-29 10:29 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-29 10:50 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-10-29 11:12 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-31 2:02 ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-31 2:00 ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-31 2:51 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-31 1:59 ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-31 1:57 ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-31 1:55 ` Robert Dewar
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