The question of abandoning support for compilers that aren't quite up to
modern standards comes up periodically. So far, it has always turned out
that one or another supported platform still doesn't have a compiler with
adequate support for the language features we'd like to take advantage of.
(OS400 is "obscure" only if it isn't a platform you personally have to
support.) I think the last poll was taken a couple of months ago.
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From: J. J. Merelo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Barrage of questions from newbie
Those features are standard in all compilers since a couple of years
ago, at least; and templates, at least 4 years before that. Besides,
nowadays, you can write pretty portable, #ifdef-free, code in C++; major
compilers, like GNU c++ and VC++, compile the same code without a
problem. Of course, I can't say the same about OS400 or other obscure
OSs, but I guess g++ is also ported to them.
Is anything like that on the wish list? Lots of code (and headaches for
developers) could be saved...
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