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Article #681Re: Standard libraries (was Re: SYSTEM)
From: Randy Bush
Date: Thu, 03 May 1990 14:50
Date: Thu, 03 May 1990 14:50
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pas@unhd.unh.edu.UUCP (Paul A. Sand) writes:
> George.Emery@p42.f369.n105.z1.fidonet.org (George Emery) writes:
>> I'm thinking that there is a fundamental difference between libraries written
>> for C and those for Modula-2. C presumes an operating system that can handle
>> forks and multiple processes -- Modula-2 doesn't.
> That's simply nonsense. C presumes some things about so-called hosted
> implementations, but that's not one of them. For goodness sake, I had
> a C compiler on my Apple II. Where in the world do people get such
> misinformation?
And, while we're on the subject of Modula-2, the Modula-2 system I used on the
Apple ][ had coroutines and interrupts.
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