On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 05:07:08PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
In support of
this, I???d encourage everyone who works with C to read Chris $
Reading this really gives me the impression that it's time to fork C.
There seems to me to be a need for two different languages, which I
might slightly inaccurately call the one C used to be and the one it
has become (and is becoming).
It has been effectively forked for a long time.
Same name. Look at Fortran II vs. more modern Fortran.
The pain of counting characters for the H command... ugh.
Diane
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