From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: 64 bit integers ??!?
Date:	Wed, 21 Jan 1998 18:27:24 -0500
Organization:	Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt.
Lines:	28
Message-ID:	<34C6845C.25AC@cs.com>
References:	<199801210842 DOT KAA04094 AT ankara DOT duzen DOT com DOT tr>
NNTP-Posting-Host:	ppp224.cs.com
Mime-Version:	1.0
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway:	from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

S. M. Halloran wrote:
> 
> No, we will see Java.  This whole nonsense regarding the
> size of integral data types in C has been used as a stick to beat the
> language and its descendants.  It is probably unrealistic to expect a
> once-and-for-all-time standard from ISO/ANSI since the nature of
> human thought and invention and of progess is such that we really
> can't anticipate what will be in front of our noses in the next 5
> years, let alone 500.

While I agree with your point about progress, I don't understand what
you mean by "used as a stick to beat the language."  The ANSI C standard
is _specifically_ open-ended; it says "greater than or equal to," as
opposed to "equal to."  How can this limit anybody, unless they don't
fully understand how the standard works.  If so, that's their fault, or
the fault of whoever taught them the language.

I don't know anything about Java (except that its syntax is vaguely
C++-like), so I can't compare the two.  Perhaps you could provide more
details?

-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------------
|      John M. Aldrich       |"Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream |
|       aka Fighteer I       |up a god superior to themselves. Most |
|   mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com   |gods have the manners and morals of a |
| http://www.cs.com/fighteer |spoiled child."    - Lazarus Long     |
---------------------------------------------------------------------

- Raw text -