Re: Compound files, but not Microsoft's

From: QHenrick_Hellstr=F6m_=5BStreamSec=5D=22?= (henrick_at_REMOVEstreamsec.se)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 00:38:31 +0100

Eugene Mayevski wrote:

> Are you sure that in 10 years Delphi will be alive and not outdated?
> Frankly speaking, I am not sure that it will -- if Microsoft moves
> everything to .NET as they plan (and if they do, they will complete this
> inwithin 10 years), current Delphi code will require extensive rewriting.

That is a red herring. It doesn't matter which language or compiler you
use, because without standardized documentation of your formats and
processing rules you seem likely to be toast no matter what.

Given that the C standard doesn't specify the exact size of the
fundamental size, and that there actually have been ancient standard
compliant C compilers for which a char wasn't 8 bits and an int wasn't
32 bits - What guarantee do you have that e.g. a C# int is a 32 bit
signed integer in .NET 7.0? 

-- 
Henrick Hellström
www.streamsec.com

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