From: Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com>
Subject: Re: C to JVM, time to revive JGNAT?
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:04:11 +0200
Date: 2006-08-11T10:04:11+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebhdlq$rgq$1@sunnews.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iXNCg.12548$E02.4627@newsb.telia.net>
Bj�rn Persson wrote:
>> Which is true also about standard C:
>>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> int main()
>> {
>> puts("Hello");
>> return 0;
>> }
>
> Is that the most interesting program you can write in standard C? ;-)
No, but the biggest challenge in portability is the relatively small
(when compared to, say, Java) standard library.
For example, write a web browser in Ada (net+gui+crypto+...) and let me
know how much portable it is.
> As a quick example of a non-portable aspect of standard C, let's say I
> need to represent natural numbers from 1 to 1000000.
Then you use long and you're done. The standard says so.
--
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-09 8:11 C to JVM, time to revive JGNAT? Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-08-09 9:48 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-08-09 10:15 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-08-09 10:59 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2006-08-09 16:01 ` Martin Krischik
2006-08-10 7:18 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-08-10 10:08 ` Martin Krischik
2006-08-09 22:39 ` Björn Persson
2006-08-09 23:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-08-10 22:31 ` Björn Persson
2006-08-11 9:51 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-08-10 7:10 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-08-10 19:38 ` Simon Wright
2006-08-10 21:55 ` Björn Persson
2006-08-11 7:54 ` Martin Krischik
2006-08-11 8:04 ` Maciej Sobczak [this message]
2006-08-11 9:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-08-14 7:09 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-08-14 8:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-08-14 9:33 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-08-14 11:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-08-21 6:04 ` Dave Thompson
2006-08-10 2:53 ` napi
2006-08-10 10:43 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2006-08-10 11:14 ` Martin Krischik
2006-08-21 6:04 ` Dave Thompson
2006-08-09 16:01 ` Martin Krischik
2006-08-09 18:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-08-10 10:11 ` Martin Krischik
2006-08-10 13:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-08-10 17:07 ` Martin Krischik
2006-08-10 19:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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