| ▲ | pjmlp 2 hours ago | |
The C standard committee even refused Dennis Ritchie proposal for fat pointers. https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/varar... Meanwhile after UNIX was done at AT&T, the C language authors hardly cared for the C standard committee in regards to the C compiler supported features used in Plan 9 and Inferno, being only "mostly" compatible, followed up having a authoring role in Alef, Limbo and Go. > The language accepted by the compilers is the core ANSI C language with some modest extensions, a greatly simplified preprocessor, a smaller library that includes system calls and related facilities, and a completely different structure for include files. https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/comp I doubt most C advocates ever reflect on this. | ||
| ▲ | lelanthran 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> Meanwhile after UNIX was done at AT&T, the C language authors hardly cared for the C standard committee in regards to the C compiler supported features used in Plan 9 and Inferno, being only "mostly" compatible, followed up having a authoring role in Alef, Limbo and Go. > I doubt most C advocates ever reflect on this. What would be the conclusion of this reflection? Assuming you have reflected on this, what was your conclusion? | ||