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[Chuck Guzis]

On 1/29/21 10:03 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote:

> 
> And unfortunately some industries it is prohibited.  Those industries
> *require* conformance to MISRA, CERT-C, ISO-26262 and others.  There is
> *no* choice since the code has to be audited and compliance is *not*
> optional.

Just an illustration of what happens when you take a "portable
alternative to assembly" and put lipstick on it.   I've been programming
C since System III Unix and I still consider it to be a portable (sort
of) alternative to assembly.

One of the problems with C, in my view, is a lack of direction.  There
are plenty of languages that aim for specific ends.  (e.g. COBOL =
business/commercial, FORTRAN = scientific, Java = web applications,
etc.).   But whence C or C++?

In my dotage, I do a fair amount of MCU programming nowadays, and C is
the lingua franca in that world; the only real alternative is assembly,
so that makes some sense.  Python, Ada, etc. never really managed to
make much headway there.  C is far more prevalent than C++ in that
world, FWIW.

Does standard C have vector extensions yet?  I was an alternate rep for
my firm for F90 (was supposed to be F88) for vector extensions; it's
just a matter of curiosity.

--Chuck