On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 5:10 PM Paul Koning via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On May 9, 2024, at 7:55 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > One of the things that _I_ love about C is that it is easy to get it out > of the way when you want to do something lower level. > > > > Rather than feeble type system, it could have had a requirement to > explicitly "cast" anything being used as a "wrong" type. > > > > One of Alan Holub's books about C is titled > > "Enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot" > > True, and Stroustrup added that "and C++ is a cannon that blows off your > entire leg". That's what compiler warnings are for: "Warning on line 33: you are about to blow your leg off." Sellam
