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Chris Hills

Richard said:
It's good to finally see the stalwarts being a little more open minded
and answering what would previously have been called "Off Topic".

Yes, It makes the place a LOT more relaxed and friendly.

We loose all the noise of OT discussions and the net overall effect is
fewer OT messages.
 
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Richard Heathfield

Chris Hills said:
Richard said:
user923005 said:
[snip]
2) If you don't have a C compiler installed, install one. You can find
a list of free C compilers here:

http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/resources.php#FreeCompilers

Don't forget Watcom C:

http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Download

It's good to finally see the stalwarts being a little more open minded
and answering what would previously have been called "Off Topic".

Yes, It makes the place a LOT more relaxed and friendly.

You're assuming the troll is correct, which in fact is not the case.

We loose all the noise of OT discussions and the net overall effect is
fewer OT messages.

This was not the experience of comp.lang.c++.

Chris, surely it must worry you that the only people who share your opinion
on this matter are the trolls?
 
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Richard Tobin

Kenny McCormack said:
Yes, I looked it up in Wikipedia. It seems strange to talk about an
_operating system_ having a strange (or whatever other descriptive you
choose) string handling "paradigm" (or system, or whatever), when
usually that sort of thing is an attribute of the _programming language_.

Presumably the string handling system is a library provided by the
operating system. The C library was in much the same position until
it was ported from Unix to other systems.

-- Richard
 
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Richard Bos

Presumably the string handling system is a library provided by the
operating system. The C library was in much the same position until
it was ported from Unix to other systems.

And presumably, a typical C implementation on Symbian (if there are any;
I believe, but do not know for certain, that there are) would be a
freestanding one, due to the rather specialised nature of the devices it
runs on.

Richard
 
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Peter Pichler

Richard said:
Presumably the string handling system is a library provided by the
operating system.

Quite right. The programming language you are stuck with is almost, but
not entirely, unlike C(++, <cough><innocent look>). The language itself
looks familiar, but the libraries are completely off. We ended up
rolling our own malloc, strncmp and about two dozen other functions when
we were porting an engine (the rest was written using the OS paradigm).
 
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Larry__Weiss

Peter said:
Quite right. The programming language you are stuck with is almost, but
not entirely, unlike C(++, <cough><innocent look>). The language itself
looks familiar, but the libraries are completely off. We ended up
rolling our own malloc, strncmp and about two dozen other functions when
we were porting an engine (the rest was written using the OS paradigm).
>

What language is that?

- Larry
 
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Peter Pichler

Larry__Weiss said:
Peter Pichler wrote [about Symbian OS]:
>
The programming language you are stuck with is almost,
but not entirely, unlike C(++, <cough><innocent look>).

What language is that?

"almost, but not entirely, unlike C++" :)

Sorry about the apparent OT, but you *can* actually program
in something that is almost, but not entirely, unlike C too.
As Richard Boss correctly pointed out, it is a free-standing
environment, so their C++ (and C) implementation differs from
standard. Sometimes quite a lot.

Sorry about digressing so much into OT. I brought it up only
to illustrate that there are worse things than C strings :)
 
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Peter Pichler

Peter said:
As Richard Boss correctly pointed out,

OMG, have I really misspelt Richard's name?
My sincerest apology! My only excuse it tiredness.

[Crawls to bed with a tail between his legs.]
 
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Richard Bos

Peter Pichler said:
OMG, have I really misspelt Richard's name?

You are not the first and will not be the last.

I claim no overlordship.

Richard (prefers to be the evil force behind the boss)
 

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