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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Comments on "C"
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 08:06:04 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1609090804350.78806@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008601d20a06$11aa2310$34fe6930$@ronnatalie.com>

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.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-08 22:06 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 [this message]
2016-09-09  3:02       ` Ronald Natalie
2016-09-09  6:06         ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-09-09 21:15 ` Mary Ann Horton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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