Quoth Ury Segal on Tue, Jul 25, 2000:
> > Oh. Yet another ANSI incompatibility from Sun Microsystems? You
> > should probably forgive these guys. They were born before ANSI C
> > and before POSIX. Modern BSD systems return int, as expected.
>
> It is NOT from Sun. It is from BSD.
It's from BSD, then. Pre-ANSI-C version. Before the standard
existed. Before the ANSI standard. Got it? They didn't read
the standard because it didn't exist then.
> > To put it simple, some parts of the C standard suck hard, and I
> > mean both language per se and the standard C library. But
> > overall, in my opinion, C is a nice language.
>
> Wow. After a long time I managed to bang some sense
> itto heads.
Did you hear me declare C the Ultimate Programming Language of
all times? I only stated my opinion that C++ is much worse, and
explained why most of your claims about C were mistaken and
caused by basic misunderstanding of the C philisophy and goals.
BTW, fix your time _and_ your timezone.
Vadik.
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