From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3D34F3B6.F76FF816@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Subject: Re: [9fans] more extensions Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 08:58:54 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cf0727e8-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 "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.