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to: Frank Adam
from: George White
date: 1998-07-09 07:34:02
subject: Difftime

Hi Frank,

You wrote to Bill Birrell:

FA>BB> thing I did change was the dreadful "void
main(void)" that Microsoft
FA>BB> examples consistently show.
FA>BB>     Maybe somebody should have a word with Bill Gates about it. :-)
FA>Better not, he'll just buy ISO and make void main() the standard. ;-)

C and C++ are among the few standards MS haven't effectively taken over.
They are trying though :-(. Watcom, in their documentation about changes
between compiler versions, report on many "errors" that they've had to
downgrade to "warnings" to get their compiler to accept MFC.

George

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