Xref: utzoo comp.lang.misc:7211 comp.arch:21751 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!richard From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.arch Subject: Re: Algol68 (and standards diatribe) Message-ID: <4394@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 1 Apr 91 14:25:31 GMT References: <3787@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <9168@castle.ed.ac.uk> <5591@mcrware.UUCP> <1991Mar28.011025.16337@ico.isc.com> <1991Mar29.222133.2819@cl.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 24 In article <1991Mar29.222133.2819@cl.cam.ac.uk> nmm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) writes: >As one of the half-dozen or so people in the world who has designed and >implemented a C run-time system for a totally un-UNIX operating system >(IBM MVS), I know something about this area. I tried looking at K&R to >find a description of what the UNIX libraries do, in order to resolve >some of the ambiguities in the ANSI standard. Yeah, well .... Did you report your problems to ANSI or ISO? Did you get any response? It would be very useful if the problems you found were made public, so that the rest of us don't have to re-find them ourselves. >Someone else's quote: "From an MVS viewpoint, it is difficult to >distinguish UNIX and MS-DOS". That's Richard O'Keefe's. To me, it suggests serious problems with an MVS viewpoint. -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin