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   From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article <10jjc9s$3uhtk$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Chris Ahlstrom   wrote:   
   >Waldek Hebisch wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >   
   >> In alt.folklore.computers c186282  wrote:   
   >>    
   >>>   Hmm ... look at all the GNU 'compilers' -   
   >>>   FORTRAN, COBOL, Ada, 'D', M2, Rust,C++,   
   >>>   G++, even Algol-68. None are 'compilers'   
   >>>   per-se, but to-'C' TRANSLATORS. So, 'C',   
   >>>   pretty much All Are One And One Is All.   
   >>   
   >> No.  Compiler as first stage translate given language to a   
   >> common representation.  This representatiton is different   
   >> than C.  Ada and GNU Pascal have parametrized types, there   
   >> is nothing like that in C.   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >> C++ (and some other languages)   
   >> have exceptions, C do not have them.   
   >   
   >What about setjmp()/longjmp() ?   
      
   Not at all the same thing.  `setjmp`/`longjmp` are about   
   non-local flows of control; exceptions are about non-local   
   passing of values.   
      
   Of course, one can use `setjmp` and `longjmp` to build an ersatz   
   exception system, but only as a part.  One can also use them to   
   build green threads, but they are not in themselves "threads".   
      
   	- Dan C.   
      
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