Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: VMS Specific question about binary reads using fgetc
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.170718.6651@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <U254O51@xds13.ferranti.com> <2133@mindlink.UUCP> <.X94JD6@xds13.ferranti.com> <686@illini.osc.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 17:07:18 GMT

In article <686@illini.osc.edu> djh@osc.edu (David Heisterberg) writes:
>> The existing syntax, "#include <stdio.h>" was already perfectly well
>> suited for those semantics.
>
>Then use it.  It works just fine.  I don't understand what you're complaining
>about.  VMS often has include-like files in text libraries, and the VAX C
>extension to #include takes advantage of that.  If you don't want to use it,
>then don't.  Who's putting a gun to your head?

Does the word "portability" mean anything to you?  How about "many wasted
man-months trying to port software written by clever people who think it's
cute to use VMS-specific language features"?  We don't want *you* to use
it either, because someday we may have to port or maintain your code.
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