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Re: features
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 14:33 EDT
From: chyde@BBN.COM
perhaps we/someone should devise a "trip test" to designate what
constitutes meeting the spec for each version...recent messages
suggest vendors have already deviated from each other.
The fact that there are slightly divergent implementations does not
imply the any particular implementation doesn't comply with the spec.
That is, in any large software system, a compliant implementation may
still have bugs, features that are extensions, niceties in defaulting
behavior, and so forth.
That isn't to say that such a "trip test" wouldn't be useful. But there
are a lot of other factors to consider...
the combination should render achieving portability lots easier. of
course, that begs the question of how badly we need portability...
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