On 8 Mai, 20:09, Marco van de Voort <mar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 2008-05-08, thomas.mer...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<thomas.mer...@[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.
Sorry, I just decided not to 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.
Yes
> >> 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.
Ok, but AFAIK the 'sleep' function - when available - uses
seconds as parameter.
> >> > 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.
Well, the article also contains points which are still
valid... But if you think that I am a troll, who just
tries to provoke diskussions, you are at the wrong lane.
> >> > 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.
I have not tried windows 64/ce therefore I cannot
tell about that.
Greetings Thomas Mertes
Seed7 Homepage: http://seed7.sourceforge.net
Seed7 - The extensible programming language: User defined statements
and operators, abstract data types, templates without special
syntax, OO with interfaces and multiple dispatch, statically typed,
interpreted or compiled, ****table, runs under linux/unix/windows.
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