Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Packing, Ordering, and Rearranging
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.232655.28394@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <57898@microsoft.UUCP> <1990Oct3.061708.10391@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1990Oct5.174210.28737@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Oct6.133425.12773@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 90 23:26:55 GMT

In article <1990Oct6.133425.12773@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>>... A standard is useful only if it is widely accepted.  It cannot
>>become widely accepted without support from compiler writers.  Trying
>>to ram things down the compiler writers' throats with standards simply
>>does not work; all it does is eliminate the usefulness of the standard.
>
>I offer the Ada language as an absolute counterexample to your argument.

I wasn't aware that Ada was useful.
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