In <51b9c04b.3090...@gmail.com>, on 06/13/2013 at 08:51 PM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> said:
>C has a *lot* of flaws but it's a sharp (and dangerous) tool. For a >toy it's been pretty successful. That has much to do with the wide dissemination of the source code for a portable compiler and little to do with the quality of the language. >It's also childs play to re-compile a C program 64-bit with no or >minimal code change. The same certainly cannot be said of assembly >language or PL/1. That has to do with the availability of compilers, not with the languages themselves. The C constructs long and short are intrinsically nonportable. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN