18 Nov
2024
18 Nov
'24
8:05 p.m.
On Mon, 18 Nov 2024, Luther Johnson wrote:
C, Lisp, and probably many other languages have gone
through a similar
historical arc - first they are designed to solve problems, and be a
useful and powerful means of expression - then they become official,
standardized, and legalistic - then they become commercially
competitive, and leverage the legalisms, benchmarks, and other
collateral that has accrued - at this point, generations later, the
language is evolving with no appreciation or understanding of the
aesthetic and practical principles of the original language effort.
My old-man-grousing for today.
I feel like most of the changes to C after C89 were a waste. Apart from
stdint.h, I mostly keep to coding in strict C89.
-uso.