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I also agree with the article, but I must take exception with your assertion that C is easy to implement. The ANSI C99 spec came out almost ten years ago, and m
by gcv 19y ago
I also agree with the article, but I must take exception with your assertion that C is easy to implement. The ANSI C99 spec came out almost ten years ago, and most major compilers still barely support it. GCC has a depressing number of C99 features flagged as broken (http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html), for example.
- tjr 19y agoGCC has been making progress on C99... part of their problem has been, how best to implement C99 features that were already part of GCC prior to C99, but with different syntax? For Microsoft, I read somewhere several years ago that they had no plans to support C99, because they viewed C as inconsequential compared to C++. I have not kept up with Microsoft C compiler development at all, so I don't know if this is still true or not.
- 0x44 19y agoIt does make sense for Microsoft to deprecate continued development of C, when one considers their push toward .NET and getting various languages implemented on it.