Re: [pure-lang-users] C macros

[Eddie R. <er...@bm...>]

On Mon 01/09/08  7:08 PM , Albert Graef Dr....@t-... sent:

> Well, C is supposed to be a general purpose language. Or when was the 
> last time you used it to do some *real* systems programming? ;-)

Was I wrong in reading that C was a descendant of BCPL to finish writing Unix? If the committee added complex, why didn't the 
committee add some string support like ==, !=, and friends? I don't know about other programmers, but handling memory and strings 
in C is where I mess up the most.

> PS: No news on the matrix/vector stuff yet, but in the meantime I have 
> thunks working, so Pure finally has lazy lists and all that stuff now. 
> (I still have to overhaul the prelude, though, so that the list 
> operations properly deal with infinite lists.)

The SVN browser has been down for two days so I haven't been able to keep up with what is going on.

e.r.