Re: Advice to Java proponents (was Re: Will Java kill C++?)

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From: D'Arcy Smith
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 18:48

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Russ McClelland wrote:
> In ANSI C, if you write pure ANSI, and you compiler is 100% ANSI (all
> of these are common things), your code is completely portable with no
> changes!

Hmmm..... I used to write code on a SPARC and an Alpha... I noticed
some problems with different sizes for primitive types... :-)

Of course this is easy to control with #ifdef - but that does result 
in a code change (form the pre processor).

> --
> Cat...the other white meat.

That is sick :-(

..darcy

D'Arcy Smith
Symantec

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Subject: Re: Advice to Java proponents (was Re: Will Java kill C++?)
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 11:48:55 -0700
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