On 2015-11-07, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net>: > >> In my work, I currently use bash, Python and C. For many, many tasks, >> bash is superior to Python. For others, Python can't compete with C. >> Yet the vast gap between bash and C is nicely filled with Python. > > And, by the way, the introduction of the "const" keyword was maybe the > biggest mistake the C standardizers ever made. It turned out to be about > as useful as a mosquito buzzing at your ear, and equally persistent and > annoying.
I take it you don't write embedded code that runs from ROM? I do. The const keyword is the most valuable addition to the C language since the function prototype. Without it, you used to have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get read-only data placed into read-only memory. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
