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First of all what if I am lunatic xD There are so many parts of C that are unsafe that a secondary tool is needed to have an reasonable type-checking and that
by 0xAA55 10y ago
First of all what if I am lunatic xD
There are so many parts of C that are unsafe that a secondary tool is needed to have an reasonable type-checking and that tends to be devastating if they can be easily avoided by even safety critical engineers.
https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_slides.pdf https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_...
"Toyota does not claim to have followed MISRA Guidelines"
And honestly I dont think we agree on what "a few" is. In my book if any more than 4 or 10 people die from a solved problem in computer science (like strong typing, mutexes, and range checking) that is already way too yes many
As far as decisions on a whim compare the two language design efforts and i'll let you decide:
http://www.adapower.com/index.php?Command=Class&ClassID=FAQ&CID=320 http://www.adapower.com/index.php?Command=Class&ClassID=FAQ&...
"The requirements were not a language specification, but instead they attempted to define rigorously the needed characteristics in a form that could be critically reviewed."
https://www.codingunit.com/the-history-of-the-c-language https://www.codingunit.com/the-history-of-the-c-language
“It’s entirely Dennis Ritchie’s work”
- AnimalMuppet 10y ago"Decided by one man" != "decided on a whim".
- 0xAA55 10y ago"...despite the changes that it has undergone since its first published description, which was admittedly informal and incomplete..." ~ Dennis M. Ritchie It took a decade to even decide what the C language really was and standardize it -- sounds pretty undefined and whimsical to me. But we all use and understand words differently so let's agree to disagree :)