It made sense to Ken and Dennis back when C’s type system was a lot simpler than it is now, anyway.
> On Sep 20, 2018, at 7:40 AM, Michael Jones <michael.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > the other answer is: "for c it made sense to ken and dennis, alas, we are not > them" > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:32 AM Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com > <mailto:e...@thyrsus.com>> wrote: > Dan Kortschak <dan.kortsc...@adelaide.edu.au > <mailto:dan.kortsc...@adelaide.edu.au>>: > > To avoid having to have something like this: > > > > http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html > > <http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html> > > OK, we now have another candidate for the topic of the Mysterious Stranger's > thumb drive. A tortuous spiral, drawing the minds of unwary programmers > into nighted depths of abyssal madness. I'm really glad I never summoned > up the nerve to mount the thing. > -- > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/ > <http://www.catb.org/~esr/>">Eric S. Raymond</a> > > My work is funded by the Internet Civil Engineering Institute: > https://icei.org <https://icei.org/> > Please visit their site and donate: the civilization you save might be your > own. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:golang-nuts%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > Michael T. Jones > michael.jo...@gmail.com <mailto:michael.jo...@gmail.com> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
