In <[email protected]>, on
02/19/2015
at 08:18 AM, "Ze'ev Atlas"
<[email protected]> said:
>I still think that the decision, many decades ago, to leave the
>actual definition and implementation of short, int, long, etc. to
>the implementation rather than enforce rules (16, 32, 64 bits) was
>wrong and shortsighted.
It was appalling; a reversion to FORTRAN-speak after PL/I showed how
it should[1] be done. But C is still the best PDP-7 specific language
ever designed.
[1] In general; I won't argue the Ada approach versus the PL/I
approach, as both let the compiler figure out what storage unit
is needed to hold the declared variable.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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