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Subject: Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int'
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

[... discussing #include files and module systems ...]

> So what happened since the late 70s?  We're still doing independent
> compilation, still doing linking, still use makefiles.  In fact its
> got a lot more complex rather than simpler.
>
> And in C (since the the comparison was with that) we STILL have
> massive sets of header files per library (nobody has managed to
> reduce them to a single compact file for production use) that has
> to be re-processed by every module of a project that uses even one
> entity in the library.

Languages with distinct modules and interfaces have their own
problems.  Neither approach is perfect;  each has its own pluses
and minuses.