Perl help

[Bob Bell]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:18:55AM -0400, Kevin D. Clark <kclark at cetaceannetworks.com> wrote:
> michael.odonnell at comcast.net writes:
> > What's the relationship between Perl and C99?
> 
> I don't think that there is a strong relationship.  The Perl source
> code is amazingly portable; it runs on well over 100 platforms.  Most
> of these platforms probably aren't C99 conformant, and so the Perl
> source doesn't depend on C99 features.
> 
> Perl could be enhanced to support these features on C99
> conformant platforms, probably most easily by writing a module.

    I mentioned the C99 standard as an international standard for C code
that I suspected most languages printf routines aim to match.  I was
just trying to get more detail on a specfication for printf.

-- 
Bob Bell <bbell at hp.com>
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