From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] Comments on "C"
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 23:02:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B977CD6B-17FB-4B2C-A503-0DE3F40F6E42@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1609090804350.78806@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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> On Sep 8, 2016, at 6:06 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Ron Natalie wrote:
>
>> Most of my complaints about C are because it's "standard" library was
>> awful back in the seventies and it really didn't improve much over the
>> years.
>
> That "portable I/O" library was certainly atrocious, but at least STDIO
> was an improvement.
Not much. The functions have all of their portable IO library ugliness. Don’t get me started on fread/fwrite.
Ane why gets and fgets have different semantics and all the various functions take the stream parameter in
different places.
My other C gripe is when they fixed the semantics of structure typing (somewhere between V6 and V7) that they
didn’t also make arrays full fledged types at the same time. The silent treatment of array as a pointer to element when used as function parameters/return is just ludicrous.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-09 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-08 13:30 Noel Chiappa
2016-09-08 14:22 ` Tony Finch
2016-09-08 19:20 ` Ron Natalie
2016-09-08 22:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-09 3:02 ` Ronald Natalie [this message]
2016-09-09 6:06 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-09-09 21:15 ` Mary Ann Horton
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2016-09-09 2:43 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-08 12:35 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-09 17:07 ` scj
2016-09-01 9:17 Norman Wilson
2016-09-01 15:11 ` Clem Cole
2016-09-01 21:47 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-09-02 0:11 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-09-02 7:10 ` Steve Simon
2016-09-02 10:02 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-09-02 14:13 ` Random832
2016-09-02 21:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-04 17:03 ` scj
2016-09-05 13:07 ` Ron Natalie
2016-09-04 22:24 ` Nemo
2016-08-28 18:21 Dave Horsfall
2016-08-29 0:37 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-08-29 0:42 ` Larry McVoy
2016-08-29 1:54 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-09-08 1:19 ` Blake McBride
2016-08-29 3:16 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-08-31 10:02 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-08-31 12:59 ` John Cowan
2016-08-31 13:32 ` Ron Natalie
2016-08-31 14:37 ` John Cowan
2016-08-31 13:57 ` Brantley Coile
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