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From: mcdaniel@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (Tim McDaniel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint won't verify printf formatting against variable types??
Keywords: lint, cc
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Date: 10 Jul 89 04:45:17 GMT
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In article <10459@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> diamond@csl.sony.junet
(Norman Diamond) writes:
> You should only hate the people who force us to continue using C, 15
> years after such defects are known.

I hate it when this sort of thing happens.  To the guy holding the gun
to Norman's head, forcing him to use C: cut it out, will ya?

Seriously, I suppose Norman means that there is no language that
- has a better syntax than C
- has expressive power not much less than C's
- is as portable and commonly supported as C
and that the lack of such a language requires that he use C.

While I too would like to see such a language, I submit that nobody in
particular *owes* it to us.
--
"Let me control a planet's oxygen supply, and I don't care who makes
the laws." - GREAT CTHUHLU'S STARRY WISDOM BAND (via Roger Leroux)
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