On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 05:07:08PM -0400, Mouse wrote: > > In support of this, Iâ??d encourage everyone who works with C to read Chris > > $ > > > http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know.html > > http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know_14.html > > http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know_21.html > > 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 -- - d...@freebsd.org d...@db.net http://www.db.net/~db
