On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> I really like Gonzalo's suggestion to think of specific tools and also >> the actual people involved, rather than abstractions and standards. >> >> [...] >> > I can see some advantages in this too, but also some pretty significant > disadvantages. > > * Native compilers are normally better than the GNU ones (I know you > [...]
I totally agree targetting different compilers is a worthwhile goal. I don't think targetting different versions of "cp" et al is. Especially if some of them are botched. I don't think e.g. the awk srand() hack is funny at all; the posix standard at the shell level is deficient --- for instance, computing the time in seconds since the epoch is a fairly reasonable requirement which posix fails to address in a straightforward way. Gonzalo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
