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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: PD C as solution to binary groups
Message-ID: <4179@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 12:33:15 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 15 12:33:15 1987
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Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <1101@laidbak.UUCP> by guardian@laidbak.UUCP (Harry Skelton):
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| Some of the net has little or no brains when dealing with programming or 'C'
| porting. (This is not to offend anyone but is true).  Some of the things I would
| outline is:
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(long list deleted)

You just invalidated 99% of the software that exists.  Also, you cause major
portability problems:

(1) curses doesn't exist in most MS-DOS C compilers, ditto CP/M, probably
also Mac and Amiga

(2) Unix-developed conventions don't look too useful on a Mac.  How do you
make a fancy-screen program work in a Mac environment?

(3) Typedefs enhance portability.  If SCO blew it, we shouldn't pander to
them: we should force them to fix their compiler.  Maybe you should mail them
any programs that won't compile...

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| oh...main must be on bottom - plexus, IBM xenix (orig versions) and others have
| problems with main at top.  (TRUE!)
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Of all the problems I've had with Plexus systems, that's not one of them.
Which Plexus?  (works fine on P/35, P/60, P/75, under Sys3 and Sys5.2)
If it's the Z8000 versions, maybe the problem is Z8000 brain damage?  (Since
the Z8000 is another of those wonderful save-the-world segmented architec-
tures...)