-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 11:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:16:11AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:02:37PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> [snip] > I quite agree. But in the absence of error-correction codes, > uncompressed is batter. > > And if your error-correction software ahould happen to be unusable in several > years, your errors will not be easy to corrected.
That's why you write such s/w in generic ANSI C. (I presume there's some "strict" switch in g77, too.) > Did you ever write any code in the 1970's that can't be run any more? > I did. Shame on you for not writing in a portable language. Go COBOL!!! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFeKJkS9HxQb37XmcRAhUsAJ9YYIxEttLBKqbtew2g8oW6bHWKzACfR8Hh S49/h+6oe75UGNwImVM4Aew= =BFeW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
