[TUHS] : C dialects (was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary)

[Dan Cross]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 5:08 PM Bakul Shah <bakul at iitbombay.org> wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2023, at 2:00 PM, Paul Winalski <paul.winalski at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 3/13/23, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Frankly, I'd probably rather see ISO drop a bunch of the stuff they are now
> >> requiring and fall back at least to K&R2 -- keep it simple.
> >
> > I agree.  Every language has toxic features--things that seemed like
> > good ideas at the time but turn out to have been mistakes when they're
> > better understood.  Every good programming shop has its rules
> > concerning certain language features or practices that are not allowed
> > in the code, usually for safety or maintainability reasons.
>
> You can't drop features from a widely deployed language; but while
> we are dreaming, what I'd like to see is a total *ban* on any and
> all optimizations. What you get is what you see!

Hey, they dropped `gets` from the standard library! Never say never.

        - Dan C.