C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness

Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness by mcguire on Friday August 18, 2023 @07:15PM (#37183379)

"Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language", Brian W. Kernighan, April 2, 1981:

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pas...

One of the major problems, as I recall, was that Wirth's basic Pascal definition was very limited---the max 256 character strings, for example. So the makers of "production" Pascal compilers added extensions to do all of the things that you would want to do and unfortunately those extensions were all incompatible.

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Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness by pjmlp on Saturday August 19, 2023 @04:15AM (#37186665)

A famous rant ignoring Pascal dialects, while C still lacked a standard and was a bunch of dialects all over the place.

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Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness by mcguire on Saturday August 19, 2023 @04:23PM (#37192776)

I've never seen a C dialect, other than not supporting bit fields. The language was usually the same although the libraries were all over the place.

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Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness by pjmlp on Sunday August 20, 2023 @02:42AM (#37196785)

Then you haven't used any C compilers during the CP/M, 8-bit and 16-bit days.

Here are two, RatC, Small-C.

Additionally what do you think GCC C is, in regards to K&R C and ANSI C?

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