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I read a paper somewhere from dennis ritchie, where he explained the development of C language, the pros and cons; and in there he mentioned that reading comple
by fazkan 10y ago
I read a paper somewhere from dennis ritchie, where he explained the development of C language, the pros and cons; and in there he mentioned that reading complex declarations is a problem in C, he said that if we had placed the * operator to the left of the type it was qualifying then it would have been easier to write and understand more complex declarations.
(PS. Golang has the right idea, since its developed by the guys who contributed to C)...
- hilop 10y agoGo fixes a lot of C language design bugs, and the only cost you pay is (sometimes important) garbage collection and extreme memory layout control.
- fazkan 10y agoI guess thats a given with the amount of ease and fast prototyping that it provides, it had to have taken a lot of decisions beforehand for you...