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Re:Simple diet tricks for asm.js by steveklabnik on Saturday August 27, 2016 @12:41PM (#12373069)
C99 supports //.
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Re:Simple diet tricks for asm.js by _RPM on Saturday August 27, 2016 @03:37PM (#12373812)
C89 standard does not.
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Re:Simple diet tricks for asm.js by rahkiin on Saturday August 27, 2016 @06:31PM (#12374454)
It is 2016.

Why evolve a language if you can't use any the new features?

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Re:Simple diet tricks for asm.js by coldtea on Saturday August 27, 2016 @07:08PM (#12374585)
So? If you're still using C89 you're doing it wrong.
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Re:Simple diet tricks for asm.js by _RPM on Saturday August 27, 2016 @07:45PM (#12374678)
Perhaps, portability?
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Re:Simple diet tricks for asm.js by spc476 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @08:35PM (#12374780)
Mostly Windows. It's only recently that Microsoft reluctantly (and only recently) acknowledged the existence of C99 (which isn't fully compatible with C++, their preferred development language). So maybe in three more years we'll all be able to move to C99.
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