Xref: utzoo comp.lang.misc:2288 comp.lang.fortran:1593 comp.lang.c:14540 comp.lang.pascal:1252 comp.lang.c++:2194 comp.lang.modula2:1160 Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.modula2 Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Linkage Declaration (was Re: Standardization (of FORTRAN, Ada, ect.)) Message-ID: <1988Dec5.180619.1627@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References:<395@ubbpc.UUCP> <311@csun1.UUCP> <2086@garth.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 88 18:06:19 GMT In article <2086@garth.UUCP> phipps@garth.UUCP (Clay Phipps) writes: > [BLISS linkage control] >Now if only the standards committees for languages like FORTRAN, >Pascal, C, &c. would translate something like this into >idioms that fit those languages. I can dream, can't I ? More like a nightmare. Standards committees are not in the business of doing this sort of thing without prior experience in real implementations. When they do, the result is usually a dreadful botch. -- SunOSish, adj: requiring | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 32-bit bug numbers. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu