[TUHS] Minimum Array Sizes in 16 bit C (was Maximum)

Steve Nickolas usotsuki at buric.co
Tue Nov 19 00:05:37 AEST 2024


On Mon, 18 Nov 2024, Luther Johnson wrote:

> C, Lisp, and probably many other languages have gone through a similar
> historical arc - first they are designed to solve problems, and be a
> useful and powerful means of expression - then they become official,
> standardized, and legalistic - then they become commercially
> competitive, and leverage the legalisms, benchmarks, and other
> collateral that has accrued - at this point, generations later, the
> language is evolving with no appreciation or understanding of the
> aesthetic and practical principles of the original language effort.
>
> My old-man-grousing for today.

I feel like most of the changes to C after C89 were a waste.  Apart from 
stdint.h, I mostly keep to coding in strict C89.

-uso.


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