Re:The cost of forsaking C
by Roboprog on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:04PM
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OK, thanks. I was focusing on the "definition" part, rather than the "usage" part of the types.
It never occurred to me to put variables names inside parens in a declaration when I did C, though. But OF COURSE it's legal obfuscation.
As stated elsewhere, I don't know why C had to screw up Algol's syntax so badly. I guess K&R liked curly braces much more than BEGIN/END, and why stop there, once you get going. Maybe somebody had a love affair with APL???
It never occurred to me to put variables names inside parens in a declaration when I did C, though. But OF COURSE it's legal obfuscation.
As stated elsewhere, I don't know why C had to screw up Algol's syntax so badly. I guess K&R liked curly braces much more than BEGIN/END, and why stop there, once you get going. Maybe somebody had a love affair with APL???