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From: "Joseph Holsten" <joseph@josephholsten.com>
To: "Tautological Eunuch Horticultural Scythians" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: [TUHS]: C dialects
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:56:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <101633b5-5773-4d94-bfe2-5eb1b0f52727@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_QDw4Vn+QBgRpB1rrbejHoSND9ZT9pepVvB+Nddfqnp5w@mail.gmail.com>

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Is TUHS still the right place for this discussion?

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023, at 12:48, John Cowan wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 3:24 PM Luther Johnson <luther@makerlisp.com> wrote:
>> I'm talking more about where the intent is to invest languages with more "safety", "good practices", to bake certain preferences into language features, so that writers no longer recognize these as engineering choices, and the language as a means of expression of any choice we might make, but that the language has built-in "the right way" to do things, and if the program compiles and runs at all, then it must be safe and working in certain respects.
>> 
> 
> ORLY?  Do you reject C, then, because it does not support self-modifying code or the ability to jump into the middle of a procedure without going through the prologue?  These are baked-in preferences, and if a C program compiles at all, you can be sure that it does neither of these things, even if it would benefit your program greatly if they were available.
> 
>> Some people would say that's exactly what the new dialects bring us, but I see too much artificial orthodoxy invented last week, and too many declarations of the "one true way", in many of the most recent languages, for my taste.
> 
> Since you agree that it is a matter of taste, there can of course be no disputing it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-14 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-10 11:37 [TUHS] Re: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary Noel Chiappa
2023-03-10 11:51 ` [TUHS] Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary) Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-10 15:54 ` [TUHS] Re: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary Dan Cross
2023-03-12  7:39   ` Anthony Martin
2023-03-12 11:40     ` Dan Cross
2023-03-12 16:40       ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-13  3:25       ` John Cowan
2023-03-13 10:40         ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2023-03-13 12:19           ` Dan Cross
2023-03-13 12:43             ` [TUHS] [TUHS]: C dialects (was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary) Alejandro Colomar
2023-03-13 12:46               ` [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2023-03-13 16:00               ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-13 19:00                 ` Clem Cole
2023-03-13 19:09                   ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-13 19:17                   ` Steve Nickolas
2023-03-13 20:26                     ` Dan Cross
2023-03-13 22:25                       ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2023-03-13 19:24                   ` [TUHS] Re: [TUHS]: C dialects Luther Johnson
2023-03-13 19:38                     ` Luther Johnson
2023-03-14 19:48                     ` John Cowan
2023-03-14 19:56                       ` Joseph Holsten [this message]
2023-03-14 20:01                       ` Luther Johnson
2023-03-13 20:48                   ` [TUHS] Re: [TUHS]: C dialects (was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary) Paul Winalski
2023-03-13 20:56                     ` Bakul Shah
2023-03-14  1:06                     ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-13 21:00                   ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-13 21:07                     ` Bakul Shah
2023-03-13 21:14                       ` Dan Cross
2023-03-13 22:15                         ` Dave Horsfall
2023-03-13 22:47                           ` Dave Horsfall
2023-03-14  0:23                             ` Dan Cross
2023-03-14  0:21                           ` Dan Cross
2023-03-14 13:52                             ` Chet Ramey
2023-03-14  1:27                         ` Bakul Shah
2023-03-13 21:28                       ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-14 10:04                       ` [TUHS] C dialects Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-14 20:02                         ` [TUHS] " John Cowan
2023-03-14 21:34                           ` Thomas Paulsen
2023-03-14  0:38                     ` [TUHS] Re: [TUHS]: C dialects (was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary) John Cowan
2023-03-14  2:49                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-03-14  3:06                   ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-03-15  2:23 [TUHS] Re: [TUHS]: C dialects Douglas McIlroy

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