Actually, it is possible to write a C compiler that is single pass, if you mean that the input files are scanned only once. GCC will be single pass in the near future.
I guess you're not considering the possibility that there may be a free version of Delphi for Linux, or a free Object Pascal compiler released by our company in the future. We've already released a free JBuilder and a free C++ Compiler.
I think you're mistaking free as in beer for free as in freedom. "Free" JBuilder and "Free" C++ compiler as released by Borland at present are definitely not free in the sense of the poster you replied to. Free they are not.
One area where we're lagging Windows is high-quality, freely-redistributable fonts. With 4.0 version of X coming out soon, quality true-type or other non-bitmapped fonts are going to be needed; pay a font foundry to create some, including Japanese / Chinese / Korean fonts etc.
I seem to remember Russia and Japan coming under the heaviest criticism (much from U.S. media) for their lack of Y2K preparedness or for failing to take it seriously, with the spotlight also on the low spending on Y2K in the Japanese financial sector.
Looks to me like a lot of companies spent far too much money paying "consultants" to fix "bugs", to the extent that a program originally intended to output 2 year dates was deemed buggy, and "fixed" to output 4 year dates.
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Works for me dood.
And yet in all the years I have used Emacs I have never had it crash one me
/tmp when running it, then...
You've obviously never unmounted
I wonder if that's been fixed. I haven't tried it recently.
Neil.
So how do those people that claim that Microsoft uses lots of undocumented APIs in their applications explain this, then?
Akihabara.
>versus several pass required for C or C++.
Actually, it is possible to write a C compiler that is single pass, if you mean that the input files are scanned only once. GCC will be single pass in the near future.
I guess you're not considering the possibility that there may be a free version of Delphi for Linux, or a free Object Pascal compiler released
by our company in the future. We've already released a free JBuilder and a free C++ Compiler.
I think you're mistaking free as in beer for free as in freedom. "Free" JBuilder and "Free" C++ compiler as released by Borland at present are definitely not free in the sense of the poster you replied to. Free they are not.
One area where we're lagging Windows is high-quality, freely-redistributable fonts. With 4.0 version of X coming out soon, quality true-type or other non-bitmapped fonts are going to be needed; pay a font foundry to create some, including Japanese / Chinese / Korean fonts etc.
I seem to remember Russia and Japan coming under the heaviest criticism (much from U.S. media) for their lack of Y2K preparedness or for failing to take it seriously, with the spotlight also on the low spending on Y2K in the Japanese financial sector.
Looks to me like a lot of companies spent far too much money paying "consultants" to fix "bugs", to the extent that a program originally intended to output 2 year dates was deemed buggy, and "fixed" to output 4 year dates.
Hmmm, just put the Japanese word "moshi" (if) at the front and it's the same as the English.
Neil.
Sun, for example, supports Linux by releasing StarOffice under the GPL
A factual error yourself - Sun released it under the SCSL IIRC.
Neil.
I've been intending to ask this for ages, but just
what is that red thing in orbit to the left of
Bill G's head?