[TUHS] Re: Minimum Array Sizes in 16 bit C (was Maximum)

I think both Ada and VHDL, started formally, and proceeded formally. I don't have experience with either of them, but from the outside they appear to be competent and rational. I was mostly commenting on early C and Lisp (or Verilog is another example, although I think Verilog has stayed pretty close to the original versions), of being less formal, with more implicit defaults, that just do pretty much what you would expect them to, which gives a great deal of concise leverage. Some of that gets lost when the language gets more formally "correct" or "complete", or you have to be more verbose, or maybe just stay away from certain constructs altogether, if you're not willing to qualify to the nth degree. And so, the later variants become less useful (to me) than the original versions. It's true that the first, informal versions of these languages, do require us to understand, and buy in to, the mindset of the language inventors. But with the later versions, you have to devour 1000 pages of detail from the standards committee. Which gets us to working, productive code faster ? Some prefer one path, some prefer another, but I like to learn the point of view and approach of the original authors, to me it's like reading a novel compared to reading an encyclopedia. On 11/18/2024 09:52 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: