[Info-vax] [OT] Programming languages on Unix, was: Re: [OT] Unix terminal drivers

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 23 May 2012 00:11:46 -0700, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> On 2012-05-22 10:56, John Reagan wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Bob Koehler" wrote in message
>> news:sOD49au7adpM at eisner.encompasserve.org...
>>
>> In article <qNWdnaQA98NTPifSnZ2dnUVZ_vGdnZ2d at insightbb.com>, "John
>> Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
>>>
>>> Not sure about Alpha, but the Itanium version has been updated to V3.0
>>> within the past year. No new features if I remember correctly, but
>>> several
>>> bugfixes were included. It might be one of the most recent compilers
>>> to be
>>> updated. For instance, Pascal hasn't been updated since I left the
>>> project.
>>
>> A .0 release that is just bug fixes?
>>
>> Yep. We were at V2.9 and didn't have anywhere else to go. The
>> longstanding debate is what comes after 9. Is that V2.91 or V2.A or
>> something else. PCSI is a little more forgiving, but VMSINSTAL tied our
>> hands for years. Also, much of the internal paperwork for submitting a
>> product didn't like either ".91", ".A", ".9.1", etc.
> 
> What about V2.10? :-)
> 
> 	Johnny

Apple tried that with OS X Tiger.

IIRC 10.4.10 broke the version number definition in the source header 
files, and they didn't catch it until after it had been released.



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Paul Sture