VMS Specific question about binary reads using fgetc
Henry Spencer
henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Fri Jun 29 03:07:18 AEST 1990
In article <686 at illini.osc.edu> djh at 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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