9 Sep
2016
9 Sep
'16
9:02 a.m.
On Sep 8, 2016, at 6:06 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Ron Natalie wrote:
Not much. The functions have all of their portable IO library ugliness. Don’t get me
started on fread/fwrite.
Ane why gets and fgets have different semantics and all the various functions take the
stream parameter in
different places.
My other C gripe is when they fixed the semantics of structure typing (somewhere between
V6 and V7) that they
didn’t also make arrays full fledged types at the same time. The silent treatment of
array as a pointer to element when used as function parameters/return is just ludicrous.
Most of my complaints about C are because
it's "standard" library was
awful back in the seventies and it really didn't improve much over the
years.
That "portable I/O" library was certainly atrocious, but at least STDIO
was an improvement.