Dennis Ritchie has died

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Chuck Guzis wrote: Part of what made C truly powerful was flexibility of implementation. If your machine would work better with 18 bit integers instead of 16, then you could do so. The downside, of course was extreme frustration when you encountered a lack of rigidity on things such as what 32767 + 1 was going to do, which increment would occur first on n=3; A[n++] = n++; (is that A[3]=3; A[3]=4; A[4]=3; or A[4]=4;?, yet while(*T++=*S++); would work!), etc. You really didn't have the safety of a padded play area like certain other languages. If you wanted to shoot yourself in the foot, C would give you unlimited rope. Attempting to make use of YOUR compiler's behavior in an "undefined" situation was foolish. What SHOULD happen if you divide by 0? (few compilers could implement a black hole) -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com