Re: Brian Kernighan, maybe I'm not worthy, maybe I'm scum

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:31:25 -0800, spinoza1111 wrote:


Look, mate. C isn't portable, because Brian Kernighan is an honest man,
and he says in a book published this year that Rob Pike's code is C. But
when I put this into the .Net development environment's C++ compiler,
char * becomes sbyte and has to be converted byte by byte to work with a
test harness that uses the String. C is PART of C++, so you are wrong in
your claims that C is portable.

Please repeat that statement in c.l.c and come back here after your
wounds have healed.

Java is portable. C# is portable as long as there is infrastructure
outside Microsoft.

*insert black T-ford anecdote here*

AvK
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