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SubjectRe: Migrating to larger numbers
o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s (david parsons)  wrote on 09.06.99 in <7jm8sc$lsk@pell.pell.portland.or.us>:

> In article <linux.kernel.7IYJSCT1w-B@khms.westfalen.de>,
> Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de> wrote:
> [time_t and C; library or creeping Pascal?]
>
> >The above scenario *might* be a conformant freestanding implementation -
> >that is, one with minimal library support (float.h, limits.h, stdarg.h,
> >and stddef.h, only). It *cannot* be a conformant hosted implementation,
> >because it doesn't conform to 4.12.1.
>
> Cool, so ISO C was designed by Pascal hackers.

The Library Subcommittee Chair was a certain P. J. Plauger. Maybe you've
heard that name before?

And would you explain just what the relation to Pascal is? I always
thought Pascal as designed by Wirth didn't have any date/time routines at
all, and indeed only had a fairly trivial set of library routines at all.

> That's pretty icky.

Care to explain why?

MfG Kai

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