Third public review of X3J11 C

Rob Carriere rob at kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu
Sat Aug 27 15:32:56 AEST 1988


In article <4203 at adobe.COM> burgett at steel.UUCP (Michael Burgett) writes:
> [ C is not a numerical language, fortran is, so ]
>just face it, to program effectively
>you just might have to learn more than one language.... (shock! disbelief!!)

And having done so, you might then find that there is a language that
does almost everything you want, could do everything you want with
*only small changes*, and is already better than anything else around.
Can you blame people for then trying to get these minor changes done?
I am not talking about anything like a PL/1 syndrome, because I like C
for its simplicity, and I'd much rather do some work than have the
language bloated, but there are a couple of minor changes that would
greatly improve the utility of C in the numerical field.

Rob Carriere
Face it, C is just to damn *_GOOD_* for you systems guys to keep it
all to yourselves... :-)



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