In <[email protected]>, on 06/13/2013
at 08:51 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> said:
>C has a *lot* of flaws but it's a sharp (and dangerous) tool. For a
>toy it's been pretty successful.
That has much to do with the wide dissemination of the source code for
a portable compiler and little to do with the quality of the language.
>It's also childs play to re-compile a C program 64-bit with no or
>minimal code change. The same certainly cannot be said of assembly
>language or PL/1.
That has to do with the availability of compilers, not with the
languages themselves. The C constructs long and short are
intrinsically nonportable.
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