From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 4078 invoked from network); 26 May 2020 21:49:18 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 26 May 2020 21:49:18 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 787819C856; Wed, 27 May 2020 07:49:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7359C765; Wed, 27 May 2020 07:48:50 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id CBDFF9C765; Wed, 27 May 2020 07:48:46 +1000 (AEST) Received: from firemail.de (firemail.de [88.99.137.45]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 012A49C5EC for ; Wed, 27 May 2020 07:48:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: from firemail.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by firemail.de (b1gMailServer) with ESMTP id 67AA281E for ; Tue, 26 May 2020 23:48:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 23:48:43 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: X-Mailer: b1gMail/7.4.0 X-Sender-IP: 93.209.196.204 From: "Thomas Paulsen" To: "The Unix Heritage Society mailing list" In-Reply-To: References: <8a2e9b1b-8890-a783-5b53-c8480c070f2e@telegraphics.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of popularity of C X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: Thomas Paulsen Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" >And that's exactly what's wrong with C now -- except it's probably even >a bit worse for C as the majority of people who have been sitting on the >C standards committees for the past decades are primarily either those >with deeply funded agendas about how they think they can make more money >with the language if only it behaves a certain way (e.g. more like C++); they don't play any role, as the C language was defined decades ago. I lear= ned it=20 before the ansi committee came to an end by Turbo C and soon later MS C, an= d then=20 various *NIX compilers. Recently I written a couple of linux programs using= gcc=20 with exactly the same syntax I studied 30 years ago, and it works pretty co= ol. All=20 these programs are error free performing very fast while having a small mem= ory=20 footprint. For me there is nothing better than C, and I know a lot of langu= ages.