Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers | Date | 11 Jun 1999 15:37:54 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.7IcPAeD1w-B@khms.westfalen.de>, Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de> wrote: >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>:
>The Library Subcommittee Chair was a certain P. J. Plauger.
Who, last time I looked, did not think that the C runtime library was part of the C programming language. So you seem to be slightly confused.
>And would you explain just what the relation to Pascal is?
Pascal defines its runtime library as part of the language. And this is why (a) Pascal is a dead language, and (b) Modula-2 went agressively the other direction.
Any particular reason why you hoisted up this strawman and chased it so vigourously?
____ david parsons \bi/ Getting back to the subject: 64-bit dev_t is a \/ kludge.
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