10 May
2024
10 May
'24
12:46 a.m.
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 5:10 PM Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
That's what compiler warnings are for:
"Warning on line 33: you are about to blow your leg off."
Sellam
On May 9,
2024, at 7:55 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
One of the things that _I_ love about C is that it is easy to get it out
of the way when you want to do something lower level.
Rather than feeble type system, it could have had a requirement to
explicitly "cast" anything being used as a "wrong" type.
One of Alan Holub's books about C is titled
"Enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot"
True, and Stroustrup added that "and C++ is a cannon that blows off your
entire leg".