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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID 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: fa0ae,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa0ae,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8775b19e3c68a5dc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: firewind Subject: Re: Which language pays most? Smalltalk, not C++ nor Java. Date: 1998/01/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 312211525 References: <199712121931.LAA25389@sirius.infonex.com> <34AC5A07.383C4AE3@acm.org> <68jd83$ogs$2@darla.visi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Organization: Netcom X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Jan 02 12:42:39 PM PST 1998 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: 1998-01-02T12:42:39-08:00 List-Id: On 2 Jan 1998, Peter Seebach wrote: > In article , Robert Dewar wrote: > >Note that GNU-C is in fact a well defined extension of C, with a highly > >portable implementation. So it is quite reasonable to just have a statement > >that the program is written in GNU-C rather than C. > > I don't think it's very well defined; there are questions about it which > can only be answered by looking at the code, and where there's no committment > that the behavior is the same everywhere. Hmm... the 'C Extensions' section of the gcc Info pages seem pretty complete and decently detailed to me. Is there something I don't know? :) > It's better documented than some languages, but much less well documented > than even C89. :) Certainly. I would at least hope that an international standard is more detailed than Some Vendor's extensions. :) [- firewind -] [- email: firewind@metroid.dyn.ml.org (home), firewind@aurdev.com (work) -] [- "You're just jealous because the voices talk to -me-." -] [- Have a good day, and enjoy your C. -] [- (on a crusade of grumpiness where grumpiness is due) -]