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Mostly agree. Didn't know Oberon was a single user OS, though I did read that Wirth was also involved with creating the Lilith workstation (he missed the chance
by vram22 6y ago
Mostly agree. Didn't know Oberon was a single user OS, though I did read that Wirth was also involved with creating the Lilith workstation (he missed the chance to call it a Wirthstation :), so it could make sense that Oberon was single-user too.
What's so wrong with C pointer arithmetic, per se? I know about the issues with pointers in general, having used C a lot, earlier. But the arithmetic?
- lproven 6y agoThere are multiple issues with pointer arithmetic and it is widely regarded as one of the weakest, most failure-prone points in the C language. Some discussion: https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~richardw/classes/cs31/s18/offsite/pointer.html https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~richardw/classes/cs31/s18/off... http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~reeves.92/CSE2421au12/SlidesDay12_13.pdf http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~reeves.92/CSE2421au12/SlidesD...
- vram22 6y agoThanks, will look at those.