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From: Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com>
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Subject: Re: C to JVM, time to revive JGNAT?
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:04:11 +0200
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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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