From: Corey Thomasson <cthom.lists@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] caveat... optimizer? the `zero and forget' thread on HN
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:16:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJiQxwMAe7uVLHXQeAxmemV7dwC+CHmDya0eHHFtooa8Z7kf+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121030030634.1DDFFB827@mail.bitblocks.com>
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On 29 October 2012 23:06, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
>
> gcc etc. are used to deliver a lot of code that is used in
> real word. And without a standard there would've been lot
> less interoperability and far more bugs.
Most interoperability delivered by gcc comes from the fact that gcc is
widespread, not that the standard is effective. If it was we wouldn't need
to port gcc to everything.
>
You seem to be arguing for K&R as the standard or something
> but we already tried that until 1989. A standard was needed
> due to the success of C and with indepenedent implementations
> that interpreted unwritten things in a different way from K&R.
> I doubt Ritchie and co wanted to take an active and central
> role (and I am not familiar with the history) but my guess
> is only that could've kept the standard simple and readable.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-30 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-29 9:45 dexen deVries
2012-10-29 10:12 ` tlaronde
2012-10-29 13:43 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-29 13:35 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-29 22:35 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-29 22:47 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-10-29 23:05 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-29 23:07 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-29 23:15 ` David Leimbach
2012-10-29 23:20 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-29 23:53 ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-10-29 23:59 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-29 23:10 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-29 23:26 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-29 23:31 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-29 23:36 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-29 23:58 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-10-30 0:52 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-30 1:01 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-30 7:55 ` tlaronde
2012-10-30 0:35 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-30 1:10 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-30 3:06 ` Bakul Shah
2012-10-30 3:16 ` Corey Thomasson [this message]
2012-10-30 13:08 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-30 15:15 ` arnold
2012-10-30 1:46 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-10-30 1:21 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-30 8:07 ` tlaronde
2012-10-30 10:26 ` Richard Miller
2012-10-30 10:39 ` dexen deVries
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