Hello, On Sat, 03 Oct 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/C_is_for_Crap.html
Even though the title is horrible, the article is worth reading for the detailed information the author provides on what he considers are the weaknesses of C. Even though I/O has been pushed out to a C library we do not find many people crafting their own libraries for these tasks. More importantly, even those that do, stick to the "standard" interfaces. This is because "printf" and the like have been standardised. There is no reason why proper memory management and exception handling could not be provided by standardised C library interfaces. There will always be programmers who will bypass the library and use home-brewn alternatives but most people will use the standard way if it is available (and hence taught in a first course on C). Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
