On 02/28/2016 05:13 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Yeah, let's just say that the original C designers were better at their job than a gaggle of standards people who were making bad crap up to make some Fortran-style programs go faster.
The original C designers were defining a language that would make it easy to write operating systems in (and not having to rely on assembler).
I misled the quote where they said they first tried Fortran (and concluded it didn't fit their purpose).
BTW, Fortran was designed around floating point arithmetic (and its non-relation to the mathematical concept of the field of the reals).
It used integers only for counting and indexing arrays, so it had no purpose for "signed integers that overflowed". Therefore, to the Fortran standard, this was "undefined". It was literally "undefined" - as it was not described by the standard's text.
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