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: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 141249357 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> organization: SGI reply-to: austern@mti.sgi.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern) writes: > C does not have a boolean type, but C++ does. It was added precisely > because every language was defining its own boolean type: it was clear > that a standard boolean type was needed for the sake of avoiding name > clashes. This is a typo, of course. It should read "every library was defining its own boolean type." -- Matt Austern SGI: MTI Compilers Group austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com