From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] v7 K&R C
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 10:32:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200514173206.GJ20771@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2005140930270.18677@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 09:36:57AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> I had to learn C++ for a project at $WORK years ago (the client demanded
> it), and boy was I glad when I left...
Amen. I'm being a whiney grumpy old man, but I'm sort of glad I'm at the
tail end of my career. Going into it now, there are some bright spots,
and some dim ones, Go seems nice, Rust could have been nice but they just
had to come up with a different syntax, I can't see why anyone would do
anything other than an improved C like syntax, Java and C++ seem awful,
D tried but threw too much into the language like C++ did, if D had had
some restraint like Go does, D would probably be my language of choice.
Personally, I just want a modernized C. If you want to see what I want
take a look at https://www.little-lang.org/
It's got some perl goodness, regexps are part of the syntax, switches
work on strings or regexps as well as constants, it's pleasant. And
completely doable as an extension to C.
Oh, and it has reference counting on auto allocated stuff so when it
goes out of scope, free() is automatic.
--lm
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2020-04-25 1:59 Adam Thornton
2020-04-25 2:37 ` Charles Anthony
2020-04-25 2:47 ` Adam Thornton
2020-04-25 2:51 ` Rob Pike
2020-04-25 2:54 ` Rob Pike
2020-04-25 3:04 ` Larry McVoy
2020-04-25 3:30 ` Clem Cole
2020-04-25 3:43 ` Larry McVoy
2020-04-25 3:54 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-04-25 11:44 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-04-25 13:17 ` Dan Cross
2020-05-11 0:28 ` scj
2020-05-11 0:32 ` Rob Pike
2020-05-11 0:57 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-11 17:32 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-05-11 18:25 ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-11 18:37 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-11 19:12 ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-11 19:57 ` joe mcguckin
2020-05-11 20:25 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-12 17:23 ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-12 17:35 ` ron
2020-05-12 17:42 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-12 18:36 ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-13 23:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-05-14 0:42 ` John P. Linderman
2020-05-14 2:44 ` Rich Morin
2020-05-14 3:09 ` Charles Anthony
2020-05-14 12:27 ` ron
2020-05-14 12:27 ` ron
2020-05-14 12:27 ` ron
2020-05-14 7:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-05-14 12:25 ` ron
2020-05-14 17:13 ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-14 17:21 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-17 16:34 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-05-14 4:21 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-05-14 4:40 ` Warner Losh
2020-05-14 17:32 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2020-05-14 22:32 ` Tony Finch
2020-05-16 23:53 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-05-16 23:59 ` [TUHS] v7 K&R C [really lexers] Jon Steinhart
2020-05-17 0:04 ` Brantley Coile
2020-05-17 1:23 ` Warner Losh
2020-05-17 1:36 ` Brantley Coile
2020-06-13 21:24 ` scj
2020-06-14 8:47 ` arnold
2020-06-14 12:52 ` Richard Salz
2020-06-14 14:03 ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-06-14 14:26 ` arnold
2020-06-14 14:48 ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-06-15 1:12 ` Warren Toomey
2020-06-15 1:29 ` Warren Toomey
2020-06-15 6:06 ` arnold
2020-05-17 16:31 ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-17 0:35 ` [TUHS] v7 K&R C Larry McVoy
2020-05-11 18:37 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-11 2:08 ` Lawrence Stewart
2020-05-11 11:36 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-04-25 3:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-04-27 13:19 ` Tony Finch
2020-04-25 2:50 ` Adam Thornton
2020-04-25 5:59 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-04-25 13:11 Noel Chiappa
2020-04-25 13:18 ` Rob Pike
2020-04-25 14:57 ` Warner Losh
2020-04-25 18:03 ` Noel Chiappa
2020-04-25 20:11 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-04-25 21:27 ` Brian L. Stuart
2020-04-26 0:07 ` emanuel stiebler
2020-04-26 0:54 ` Rob Pike
2020-04-26 19:37 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-04-26 20:10 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-04-26 21:59 ` Rich Morin
2020-04-26 22:38 ` Noel Hunt
2020-04-26 23:57 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-04-27 3:38 ` Rob Pike
2020-04-25 13:35 ` Hellwig Geisse
2020-04-25 13:59 ` Richard Salz
2020-04-25 19:01 ` Brian L. Stuart
2020-04-25 20:07 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-04-25 21:34 ` Brian L. Stuart
2020-04-26 6:40 ` arnold
2020-04-25 19:41 Noel Chiappa
2020-04-25 20:27 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-04-27 17:45 Noel Chiappa
2020-04-27 17:56 ` Richard Salz
2020-04-27 18:02 ` Brantley Coile
2020-04-27 18:47 ` Derek Fawcus
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2020-05-14 3:02 ` Paul McJones
2020-05-14 17:08 ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-14 17:58 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-14 18:41 Doug McIlroy
2020-05-14 18:45 ` Richard Salz
2020-05-14 20:54 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-15 2:44 ` Rob Pike
2020-05-15 3:57 ` Rich Morin
2020-05-15 7:55 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2020-05-15 15:01 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-15 15:36 ` John P. Linderman
2020-05-15 20:01 ` ron
2020-05-15 20:03 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-15 20:05 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-15 20:18 ` ron
2020-05-15 20:24 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-16 0:57 ` Brantley Coile
2020-05-16 16:14 ` Dan Cross
2020-05-15 20:56 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-05-16 0:31 ` Peter Jeremy
2020-05-16 8:30 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-05-16 0:43 ` John P. Linderman
2020-05-16 16:28 ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-16 17:39 ` Warner Losh
2020-05-19 19:45 ` Peter Pentchev
2020-05-20 3:52 ` Rich Morin
2020-05-21 15:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-05-15 20:34 Doug McIlroy
2020-05-15 20:40 ` Warner Losh
2020-05-15 21:31 Richard Tobin
2020-05-15 21:53 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-05-15 22:33 ` ron
2020-05-15 23:34 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-05-16 1:26 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-16 21:59 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-05-16 23:26 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-05-17 16:24 ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-17 16:29 ` ron
2020-05-17 16:38 ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-17 20:08 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-18 8:46 ` Peter Jeremy
2020-05-19 7:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-05-18 12:04 ` Tony Finch
2020-05-18 13:10 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-18 15:13 ` Rich Morin
2020-05-18 15:51 ` Brantley Coile
2020-05-18 16:11 ` Dan Cross
2020-05-18 21:18 ` ron
2020-05-17 16:10 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-05-17 16:14 ` ron
2020-05-16 0:15 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-05-16 0:28 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-05-16 1:52 ` Warner Losh
2020-05-16 16:31 ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-16 20:35 ` Brad Spencer
2020-05-16 20:37 ` Warner Losh
2020-05-18 12:25 ` Tony Finch
2020-05-16 18:45 Richard Tobin
2020-05-16 21:55 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-05-18 13:58 Doug McIlroy
2020-05-18 14:33 Doug McIlroy
2020-05-19 2:29 Doug McIlroy
2020-05-19 3:20 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-05-19 12:29 Noel Chiappa
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