OT: Language for the ages

[woodelf]

Vassilis Prevelakis wrote:

>Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:
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>>C is the obvious choice.  In either case, you have to be careful that
>>you don't wreck the portability by using non-portable I/O.
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>Er, how big is an int? a pointer?
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well a  ant  is small , a pointer is some kind of dog.  The most real 
non-portable
C factor is everybody expects bytes to 8 bits and CR,LF line endings are 
a bitch.
I think a character can be 7 or more bits, a int something bigger like 
16. ( As
far as I know C never made it to a PDP8 ). 

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