Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be>: > Op 09-09-15 om 19:55 schreef Steven D'Aprano: >> In fairness to the C creators, I'm sure that nobody back in the early >> seventies imagined that malware and security vulnerabilities would be >> as widespread as they have become. But still, the fundamental >> decisions made by C are lousy. Assignment is an expression? > > What is wrong with that?
C is an extremely strong language. However, I also think they made some slightly regrettable choices, some of which later standards have alleviated. One of my main issues with C has been the intentional confusion between arrays and pointers. Also, the type notation is clearly inferior to that of Pascal. The greatest blessing C has bestowed upon programmers is the void pointer. While C++ programmers (among others) have built a ridiculous cathedral (templates) to capture the same universal notion, C programmers just shrug their shoulders and store the reference in a void pointer variable. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
