Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unhd!pas
From: pas@uunet!unhd (Paul A. Sand)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Standard libraries (was Re: SYSTEM)
Message-ID: <1990May1.142713.1228@uunet!unhd>
Date: 1 May 90 14:27:13 GMT
References: <4764.263A91B8@puddle.fidonet.org>
Reply-To: pas@unhd.unh.edu.UUCP (Paul A. Sand)
Organization: University of New Hampshire
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In article <4764.263A91B8@puddle.fidonet.org> 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?
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-- Paul A. Sand
-- University of New Hampshire
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