apm35@student.open.ac.uk wrote:
> *ProteanThread* wrote:
> > that pre-dates the current standard?  (such as that which would work
> > with borland's dos based Turbo C++ or Windows based Borland C++ 4.5x)
> > working on a historical narrative (compare contrast style) of C++ from
> > its inception up until now so i'd like to get a hold of older C++
> > source code that predates the current standards (and works with, as
> > mentioned, borland C++ for windows 4.5x and turbo C++ for dos)?
>
> Why not use ansi2kr?

There may be multiple programs by that name, but the one I'm familiar
with is for converting ANSI C code to K&R style C code. That doesn't
sound like a very good answer to a question about C++ code.

He's asking for samples of code that was actually written before the
standard,  for a historical study of how C++ coding styles have changed
over time. It's not sufficient for this purpose that the code work with
a pre-standard compiler; it must be code that was actually written
before the standard. Even if a program for converting standard code to
pre-standard code does exist, how would it's product be useful for that
purpose?

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*ProteanThread* wrote:
> i asked this in other groups (didn't realize there was a group that
> discusses C++ standards specifically so apologize for cross-posting /
> double posting):

> that pre-dates the current standard?  (such as that which would work
> with borland's dos based Turbo C++ or Windows based Borland C++ 4.5x)

> working on a historical narrative (compare contrast style) of C++ from
> its inception up until now so i'd like to get a hold of older C++
> source code that predates the current standards (and works with, as
> mentioned, borland C++ for windows 4.5x and turbo C++ for dos)?

That's going to be difficult, because in general, code that
isn't being maintained gets deleted.  Most of the code at my
site (kanze.james.neuf.fr) pre-dates the standard originally,
often by a long time, but it has been constantly maintained and
updated.  There is a directory, Old, which slipped in by
accident, but even there, maintenance only stopped around three
or four years ago.  The code in the two articles at the site is
even older (1998, 1999), but still uses templates.

I do have a tar file containing code I developped using the old
Zortech compiler, under MS-DOS 3.2.  I'm not sure of the actual
dates, since at some point, it was apparently copied by a
program which didn't support file timestamps, and set them all
to 0 (Jan. 1, 1970---they're not that old).  On the other hand,
the files use the MS-DOS/Windows line terminators, which means
that they were last edited before I got rid of my MS-DOS
machine, ca. 1993-1994.  If you're interested, send me an email
at kanze.james@neuf.fr, and I'll send it to you.  (Be patient,
however.  The latency in my email connection is horrible, and it
sometimes takes a week or two for the email to get through.)

(Just looking at it, I see that it contains my regular
expression and set of character classes, which are still present
in my current code.  It would be interesting to compare the two
versions, to see how my ideas on coding have evolved in last
fifteen years.)

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i asked this in other groups (didn't realize there was a group that
discusses C++ standards specifically so apologize for cross-posting /
double posting):

that pre-dates the current standard?  (such as that which would work
with borland's dos based Turbo C++ or Windows based Borland C++ 4.5x)

working on a historical narrative (compare contrast style) of C++ from
its inception up until now so i'd like to get a hold of older C++
source code that predates the current standards (and works with, as
mentioned, borland C++ for windows 4.5x and turbo C++ for dos)?

-Woodzy
http://www.rtdos.com

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*ProteanThread* wrote:
> that pre-dates the current standard?  (such as that which would work
> with borland's dos based Turbo C++ or Windows based Borland C++ 4.5x)
> working on a historical narrative (compare contrast style) of C++ from
> its inception up until now so i'd like to get a hold of older C++
> source code that predates the current standards (and works with, as
> mentioned, borland C++ for windows 4.5x and turbo C++ for dos)?

Why not use ansi2kr?

Regards,

Andrew Marlow

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