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Article #2514Re: Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++
From: Peter Hermann
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 12:40
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 12:40
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Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen TF.E/DELAB (ohk@hal.nta.no) wrote: : Btw, I don't particulary like the lack of specification : of basic types like int, : short, etc. in C/C++ either, : and Ada isn't much better, which we discovered when Caveat! : using a validated Ada compiler which only had 16 bit int's, : even though the CPU : on which it was running had a 32 bit CPU! ...because you did not realize that even a 16-bit Ada compiler is capable to handle 32-bit integers, when you declare them. The language concept is simply ignored by a lot of people, which is a little bit unfair, imho. -- Peter Hermann Tel:+49-711-685-3611 Fax:3758 ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de Pfaffenwaldring 27, 70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!iris2.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de!ucaa2385 From: ucaa2385@iris2.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++ Followup-To: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 20 Sep 1995 12:40:31 GMT Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Distribution: world Message-ID: <43p23v$1mpq@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <438nkr$bd@classic.eng.octel.com> <4395o4$3mv2@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <43bdus$l2g@nntp.nta.no> <BLUME.95Sep15102347@dynamic.cs.princeton.edu> <43jsfd$1ea@nntp.nta.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: iris2.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de