Please distinguish between what you know and what you assume; I have actually defended C, or at least the idiom "for (;;)".
As for C++, it's not clear how saying that I haven't checked what's in the STL constitutes ignoring the language. I'd certainly prefer c++ to C. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Charles Mills <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 6:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: strange python announcement Shmuel I know you hate C and I am sure you can find things that C cannot do. You name a language; there are things it cannot do. (You seem to be quite the expert in C for a guy who hates it!) I'll admit it: I don't know what most of the things you name are. No, it is not an array-processing language: it cannot multiply an array by an array, not natively. I'm sure ne could write a subroutine to do so. Of course beating up on C is a little like beating up on Assembler F. Many of the things that are wrong with C are "fixed" in C++, which is the "HLASM" of C. You can choose to trash C and ignore the existence of C++, but again, it would be a like me trashing "assembler" while insisting that the real assembler was assembler F: variable names limited to 8 characters, etc., etc. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 11:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: strange python announcement Conformant array parameters? Slices? Automatic bounds checking? Array operations, e.g., trace, outer product? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
