On 26 July 2015 at 18:58, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
an environment that was compatible with all the existing software

although that's rapidly becoming incompatible with itself. for instance, in an unrelated forum, someone observes:

"clang provides __attribute__((overloadable)), which enables a limited version of C++-style name-mangling based polymorphism, so that you don't have to write a _Generic wrapper for each function."