On Sunday, 2 November 2014 at 07:29:25 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
The amount of money that went into such (bad) design decision...And it won't stop bleeding so long C and C++ exist.
Yes, that is true (if we ignore esoteric C dialects that add safer features). Ada is a better solution if you want reliable software.
On the plus side: the effort that goes into semantic analysis of C probably bring about some knowledge that is generally useful. But it is expensive, agree.
