Walter Bright Wrote: > Sean Kelly wrote: > > On seeing this title I was going to interject "using pointers to > > represent arrays!" but it seems you beat me to it. This is > > definitely the biggest problem with C. > > Also here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014533 > > I find the responses to be very curious, particularly the "not in the > spirit of C" ones. Then there are the ones who deny that this even is an > actual problem in C code.
I'd be inclined to think most of these people are students or hobbyist programmers. I couldn't imagine someone using C professionally and having this attitude. Though there are certainly a lot of language lawyer wannabes on the NGs, so who knows. > It reminds me of why I decided to work on D rather than keep pushing on > those ropes. And the programming community is better for it!
