From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] more extensions
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 08:58:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D34F3B6.F76FF816@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea3d8aee92936501cfc2258e06aeee59@plan9.bell-labs.com>
"rob pike, esq." wrote:
> ... I think C is not the place to do language hacking any more.
I largely agree, although there are some places in C where programmers
really could use some help. The C language is not very "clean" due
to having accumulated features rather than having features redesigned
(which would of course have caused major problems for important
existing code). Any really substantial changes would be done better
in a new language. Maybe language designers could learn from
history and avoid many of the bigger mistakes, mainly overloading
single constructs with several conceptually non-identical meanings.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-17 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-16 18:44 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-17 8:58 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
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2002-07-16 19:15 bwc
2002-07-16 19:46 ` Fariborz (Skip) Tavakkolian
2002-07-16 16:08 [9fans] useful language extension, or no? rob pike, esq.
2002-07-16 17:24 ` [9fans] more extensions FJ Ballesteros
2002-07-16 16:26 ` Sam
2002-07-16 17:28 ` Howard Trickey
2002-07-16 18:23 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-07-16 18:47 ` Dan Cross
2002-07-16 19:05 ` Jon Snader
2002-07-17 8:58 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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