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From: Florian Weimer <fw@cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World
Date: 1999/03/08
Date: 1999-03-08T07:56:27+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pv6k2z4l.fsf@deneb.cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7bva62$kgm$1@remarQ.com

"Michael Young" <nobody@all.org> writes:

> In very large systems, interface stability is a primary requirement, not
> merely an inconvenient liability. Many here are quick to point out that
> "large systems" are the rightful domain of Ada. I therefore expected to
> find in this crowd some understanding of the legacy issues involved. As
> before with the SDK "object" syntax, I found the bashing unwarranted and
> misguided.

Sorry, I didn't intend to bash anything.  I only wanted to show that
C lacks distinct types for integers (with no default conversion among
them) and that ugly (but practical) hacks are used to imitate them.
The Windows SDK was just an example.  (If I wanted to bash it, I'd write
about things like CreateProcess(), which should be more convincing. <g>)




  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-03-08  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-02  0:00 Linux World Richard D Riehle
1999-03-02  0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-02  0:00   ` Printing Enum Variable " David Starner
1999-03-03  0:00     ` fraser
1999-03-03  0:00       ` David Starner
1999-03-03  0:00         ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-03-03  0:00         ` fraser
1999-03-04  0:00         ` dennison
1999-03-04  0:00           ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-04  0:00         ` robert_dewar
1999-03-03  0:00           ` David Starner
1999-03-04  0:00             ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-04  0:00               ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-05  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1999-03-05  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
1999-03-07  0:00               ` Florian Weimer
1999-03-07  0:00                 ` Michael Young
1999-03-07  0:00                   ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-08  0:00                     ` Michael Young
1999-03-08  0:00                       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-07  0:00                   ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-07  0:00                     ` Michael Young
1999-03-08  0:00                       ` robert_dewar
1999-03-08  0:00                         ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-09  0:00                           ` Michael Young
1999-03-09  0:00                             ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-09  0:00                               ` Michael Young
1999-03-10  0:00                                 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-09  0:00                               ` billy
1999-03-10  0:00                                 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-10  0:00                                   ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-03-10  0:00                                     ` dennison
1999-03-10  0:00                                       ` bob
1999-03-10  0:00                                         ` Mike Silva
1999-03-10  0:00                                           ` dennison
1999-03-10  0:00                                           ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-10  0:00                                     ` Pascal Obry
1999-03-10  0:00                                     ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-10  0:00                                 ` Pascal Obry
     [not found]                               ` <7c4ru6$e45$1@remarq.com>
1999-03-10  0:00                                 ` fraser
     [not found]                               ` <7 <7c58qa$b6b$1@cf01.edf.fr>
1999-03-10  0:00                                 ` fraser
     [not found]                             ` <1999Mar9.131659. <dale-1003991644340001@r1021c-07.ppp.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1999-03-10  0:00                               ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-08  0:00                       ` Florian Weimer [this message]
1999-03-08  0:00                       ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-08  0:00                         ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04  0:00             ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04  0:00           ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-05  0:00             ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-05  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-06  0:00                 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-06  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-03-06  0:00                     ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-06  0:00                     ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-06  0:00                       ` Dave Taylor
1999-03-06  0:00                         ` Bruce or Tracy
1999-03-03  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-03  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-03  0:00         ` David Starner
1999-03-03  0:00     ` Fraser Wilson
1999-03-03  0:00       ` David Starner
1999-03-04  0:00         ` fraser
1999-03-05  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-05  0:00             ` fraser
1999-03-04  0:00         ` Magnus Larsson
1999-03-03  0:00           ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-04  0:00             ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-04  0:00             ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04  0:00               ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-05  0:00                 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-05  0:00                 ` dewar
1999-03-05  0:00                   ` David Botton
1999-03-05  0:00                     ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04  0:00               ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-05  0:00                 ` dewar
1999-03-07  0:00                   ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-03  0:00           ` Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World (Correction) Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-04  0:00         ` Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World Richard D Riehle
1999-03-04  0:00         ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-04  0:00         ` robert_dewar
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