Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wjh12.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!kendall From: kendall@wjh12.UUCP (Kendall) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Adding features to C language Message-ID: <324@wjh12.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Sep-83 02:49:18 EDT Article-I.D.: wjh12.324 Posted: Wed Sep 21 02:49:18 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Sep-83 08:14:57 EDT References: <484@spanky.UUCP> Organization: Delft Consulting Corp., New York Lines: 8 To make a recent point more strongly: I would expect ANY feature added to the C language now to flop, as far as its use in portable programs goes. Why is there so much discussion of extending the language? No compiler even implements the current language correctly, particularly the recent extensions such as structure passing! Sam Kendall {allegra,ihnp4}!wjh12!kendall Delft Consulting Corporation decvax!genrad!wjh12!kendall