From: "Traveler" <traveler AT netti DOT fi>
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Subject: Re: About standards
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 17:21:09 +0200
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> Me too. I think I even saw a page telling what's new in it... But who
cares
> about
> standards when not even GCC supports the whole new one...?

Generally standards are good, except in the case of Microsoft :) If they
would have abonded the backward compatibility with their 16-bit DOS then we
would have had 32-bit operating system the first time (was it in -87 or -88
?) the 386 processor was released by Intel.
(Yeah, I know Unix gurus have had 32-bit OS for over two decade...)

But when it takes too long for one group to release one then there is no
other solution than to make as "general" code as possible and hope for the
best.

> Oh, and C is and will be a better standard so use C instead ;)
>

I agree.

"Traveler 2000AD"
traveler AT netti DOT fi