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From: snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!olivea!news.bbn.com!kirin!mfausett@blo om-beacon.mit.edu  (Mark Fausett)
Subject: Re: Open comment to Ted Holden
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:27:39 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mfausett.703445259@kirin> (raw)

dappel@grafted.UUCP (Dave Appel) writes:

>Also, there is no "Standard C".   Ansi C and K&R C are *NOT*
>"standards" that are adhered to.  Talk to the people at
>Aldus corporation, the people who wrote PageMaker.  They
>have PageMaker on the Mac and PageMaker on the PC.  Only 
>about 80% of the code is identical between the two systems.
> 
>Graphic handling and system calls are still too different.
> 
So,
How does Ada solve this problem;  should the language become the OS?
Wouldn't an Ada version of PageMaker differ between platforms as well?


Mark Fausett
mfausett@bbn.com
 

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