Re: Open comment to Ted Holden

[sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!nstar!towers!grafted!dappe l@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Dave Appel)]

mfausett@bbn.com (Mark Fausett) writes:

> dappel@grafted.UUCP (Dave Appel) writes:
> 
> >Also, there is no "Standard C".   Ansi C and K&R C are *NOT*
> >"standards" that are adhered to.  Talk to the people at
> >Aldus corporation, the people who wrote PageMaker.  They
> >have PageMaker on the Mac and PageMaker on the PC.  Only 
> >about 80% of the code is identical between the two systems.
> > 
> >Graphic handling and system calls are still too different.
> > 
> So,
> How does Ada solve this problem;  should the language become the OS?
> Wouldn't an Ada version of PageMaker differ between platforms as well?
> Mark Fausett
> mfausett@bbn.com

My point was not that ADA solved those problems, but was to 
counter Mr. Holden's point that C/C++ is some kind of "universal"
or "North American" standard.  C/C++ is not a panacea. 
   Maybe someday X-windows will become a universal standard.
But now, in the personal computer world (note lower case letters)
there exists several GUI's: MS-Windows, OS/2's Presentation
Manager, Mac's GUI, X-windows ala Motif, X-windows ala Open
Look.   And coming down the pike are: IBM's "Pink" operating
(the one being developed by the joint IBM/Apple thing for
the Power Platform nee' RS/6000 ) MS-Windows-32, and 
MS-Windows-NT.


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