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Can someone explain this sentence to me? "In fact, WG14 makes WG21 look like tech’s Che Guevera."

• rurban 5y ago
  WG 14 is C, WG 21 is C++. You are probably aware of the pace of evolution in the C language. Nothing happens, and if it's a horror show. The maximally take the easiest thing from C++, but usually the worst.
  • flohofwoe 5y ago
    On the other hand, the advantage of the glacial pace of change in the C standard is that the language hasn't been ruined yet. One of the most important tasks of the committee should be to say "no", even if that's not a popular thing to do. The right place for experiments in the C ecosystem is outside the standard, in libraries and language extensions.
    • ncmncm 5y ago
      C started out ruined. But ate the world anyway. The C++ committee says "no" overwhelmingly more often than not. That is much of what Izzy was complaining of. Izzy got more stuff into C++ than 99.99% of others who tried. Ze spread zerself too thin pushing too many things. It is a major achievement to get one thing in.
    • rurban 5y ago
      They should have said no to Unicode identifiers with C11. They have now a big security mess. They should have adopted u8 instead if wchar.