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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
Date: 1996/04/12
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Date: 1996-04-12T00:00:00+00:00
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Tom said

"imho, expecting read() to stop at the end of the file, despite asking it to
read 1000 bytes is being liberal with what you give out."

No doubt about that, but always remember that it is trivial to write
portable code in any language if you have the capability of making
100% sure that you only use portable constructs! Unfortunately, almost
no large project I have seen has this capability.