Re: [pure-lang-users] C macros

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Eddie Rucker wrote:
> Was I wrong in reading that C was a descendant of BCPL to finish writing Unix?

Yes, but it has come a long way from there, and IIRC the authors 
themselves did promote it as a general-purpose language at some point. 
(E.g., Pascal-vs-C controversy.)

> If the committee added complex, why didn't the 
> committee add some string support like ==, !=, and friends?

Well, this just wouldn't sit well with the arrays as pointers 
philosophy. OTOH, complex numbers support was an easy drop-in which 
didn't disrupt the existing library and compilers.

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

Seems to be back up again. At least it works fine over here.

Also, note there's a mailing list for the svn commits to which you can 
subscribe here (be warned that this has an awful lot of traffic at 
times): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pure-lang-svn

That list is also archived, but as usual on sf.net the archive lags 
behind an awful lot. :(

Albert

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