Clojure all the way down

Re:Clojure all the way down by bad_user on Thursday October 22, 2015 @11:16AM (#10432692)

You couldn't have given a better example. C as a language doesn't have a standard library, with the standard library being Win32, or whatever comes on POSIX/Unix systems these days. You even get a different libc on Android, which isn't glibc, so with its own quirks and bugs. Win32 doesn't do fork and I/O is very different. And on embedded systems you're going to work with a C subset. And each compiler has special extensions.

In other words what you call C is actually very different from platform to platform, people solving that with a crap load of ifdef statements.

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Re:Clojure all the way down by jdmichal on Thursday October 22, 2015 @11:38AM (#10432819)

No, what I call C is the same on every platform. Otherwise, all those "crap load of ifdef statements" wouldn't work. What is called the C standard library on each platform is different, because as you said C itself does not define a standard library. So yes, I did pick my example very appropriately.

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