Re:Best aspects of C
by ghostwriter on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:40PM
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> You can absolutely learn these concepts in other languages, and my own suspicion is that unsafe Rust does a slightly better job of it than regular C does.
> C has no concept of multiple return values, functions with multiple entry points, unwinding the stack, computed goto, SIMD vector types, nested functions, discontinuous structures, or tail calls, and these are all concepts that are present in other languages that cannot be expressed in standard C or often even in vendor-extended C.
> C has no concept of multiple return values, functions with multiple entry points, unwinding the stack, computed goto, SIMD vector types, nested functions, discontinuous structures, or tail calls, and these are all concepts that are present in other languages that cannot be expressed in standard C or often even in vendor-extended C.
ATS does a better job than safe Rust and you can think of it as a vendor-extended C (http://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML/...).