Re: pascal equivalent of python "sleep"

On 2008-05-08, thomas.mertes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 <thomas.mertes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> It is really fatigueing to plug seed7 as a resolution for
inter-compiler
>> >> compability if there is only one implementation of seed(n)
>>
>> > I did not plug Seed7 as a solution for incompatible
>> > Pascal dialects
>>
>> Then for what did you plug it?
>
> To give you a chance to complain about it.

Oh, I thought it was for all your users in this group.

>> Was already posted.
>
> The next time I will ask for your permission.

Please do.

>> > C has many implementations and the
>> > ****tability problems which exist in Pascal are simply
>> > not present.
>>
>> Then find a sleep() in a strictly conforming C compiler!
>
> Surprise you will not find a function like C in a C compiler.

A conforming C compiler is compiler + its std libraries, as they are
specified by the standard.

> The C functions are part of a library and not of the compiler.

But a subset of content is specified by the standard.

>> You won't find it, it is POSIX, not C. (not to forget that even then
>> there are several, and various implementations have varying units for
the
>> arguments, from ns to seconds)
>
> The sleep's that I know use seconds.
> IIRC there is a 'Sleep' under windows which should not be confused with
> 'sleep'.

I haven't been able to find a lowercase sleep() in msdn. 

>> > This has to do with the areas where C and Pascal came from.
>> > BTW. There is some classic article about Pascal and C from Brian W.
>> > Kernighan:http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html
>>
>> Which is IMHO incorrect. And even if there ever was truth about it, it
>> ceased after the first half of the eighties.
>
> You obviously did not read the article.

I've read and discussed it many times. It is often brought up by trolls
that
fail to set it in its proper historic setting.

>> > You are right that there is currently only one implementation of
Seed7,
>> > but this implementation runs on various operating systems (unix, bsd,
>> > linux windows) on different hardware and with several C compilers.
>>
>> Windows= Windows 32/64/ce ?
>
> Just try it.

If you can't be bothered to specify, I can't be bothered to find, so I
assume win32/x86 only.