🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <8606@goofy.Apple.COM> escher@Apple.COM (Michael Crawford) writes:
>One thing I am curious about, is whether the FSF plans to pursue Posix
>or FIPS compatibility.  I see mention of that in some of their sources --
>one of the greps talks about how all the grep's will be merged for
>Posix compliance.  

We intend to conform to Posix 1003.1 and .2 at least, as well as to have
a fully conforming hosted implementation of the ANSI C standard.  We also
intend to be BSD compatible (which was the original plan, but the emergence
of Posix has fuzzed things a bit).

I don't know about the rest of Posix, or other standards (certainly you're
never gonna get *me* to write an X.400 mailer :-).

#ifdef FLAME
We have limited resources and it's a bit difficult to keep up with all
the things those crazy committees keep inventing.  It wouldn't be so bad
if they'd standardize things that we *know* are right, but no, they keep
inventing new things and failing to properly consider the consequences.
The regexp specification in 1003.2 is a case in the point.  Argh.
#endif
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Mike Haertel <mike@acc.stolaf.edu>
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