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#93363– oxxi ram full message Message #93401

From: John M. Hyaduck The Amiga Forum · Modula-2 November 14, 1987 11:04 AM

Data Hiding is not meant to hide details from YOU but to protect YOUR details from ignorant or malicious (anti-social) members of a large (i.e. more than one) programming team. Seems to work too.

#92846– Assembly Language Help Message #93398

From: John M. Hyaduck The Amiga Forum · Programming November 14, 1987 10:43 AM

It should come as no surprise that C is little more than warmed over PDP-11 assembly language. (With flow of control macros) When one works with data in C, one IS programming in assembler. This can be both a blessing and a curse.

#90016- Modula-2 Programming Message #90840

From: John M. Hyaduck The Amiga Forum · Modula-2 October 24, 1987 11:30 AM

Nearly all of the new work is being done on the vax , which provides most of the Lint-like warnings. The realagedies here have not been {_caused by c compilation unit level inconsistencies, but by across link boundary level misuses of pointer parameters. This is as much of a specification…