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This article is 15 years old now, and nothing has changed: https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-m
by pornel 2y ago
This article is 15 years old now, and nothing has changed:
https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html
(and of course the problem wasn't new 15 years ago either.)
It wasn't fixed then. It won't be fixed now.
C is valued for not changing. C is valued for backwards compatibility with the most obscure platforms with unmaintained compilers.
The C userbase is self-selected to like C exactly the way it is.
- pjmlp 2y agoThe irony is that C does change, we are at C23 now, but not in the ways that would actually improve its safety.
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