David Brown wrote:
But, technically "standard" C isn't useful as a low-level hardware
manipulation language.
Exactly.
People resort to C for pointer manipulation because the language allows
pointers to be arbitrarily manipulated.
Other more powerful languages do too. :-)
To be honest, I don't quite understand the C interpreters. Yes, it's the C
standard, but it isn't what many programs do. If you're going to
interpret, why not pick a better language?
Me, I did it a long time ago because (a) the program took 45 minutes to
link, and (b) the interpreter would give you feedback about what was
broken in your program. Debuggers sucked at the time.
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It's not feature creep if you put it
at the end and adjust the release date.
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