Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ambiguous ?
Message-ID: <1989Oct20.175554.20732@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11337@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14094@lanl.gov>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 89 17:55:54 GMT

In article <14094@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>> The looseness in the C language definition is deliberate,
>> because C was designed for systems programming,
>
>It seems to me that systems programming is exactly the context
>where "looseness" is least tolerable...

Unmanaged and unexpected looseness is indeed intolerable.  Looseness that
the programmer is aware of and allows for may make the difference between
a program which is too slow to do the job and one that runs efficiently.
-- 
A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
megabyte of flaming.           | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu