15 May
2017
15 May
'17
4:21 p.m.
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 08:14:47PM -0400, Dan Cross
wrote:
I wonder how much of it was due to evolving in stages from BCPL, where
everything is a word, and structs and arrays are just pointers (with maybe
an allocation of space for the pointer to point to).
And C couldn't pass structs by value for quite a long time.
Tony.
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Fair Isle, Faeroes: Southeast 5 or 6, increasing 7 or gale 8 for a time.
Moderate or rough, occasionally very rough in Faeroes. Fair then rain with fog
patches. Good, becoming moderate or very poor.
The kludge is that it works different than
everything else for no really
good reason.
I'd be curious what Steve thinks about all this, I know he weighed in
a bit, but does he think that Dennis / Brian/ Ken regret this design choice?