top | item 46909838 (no title) abcd_f | 24 days ago Arrays decaying to pointers is probably the biggest non-platform specific design oversight.As you said, it's easy to see where it came from, but it should've been fixed long ago. discuss order hn newest 1718627440|23 days ago > but it should've been fixed long ago.Is 27 years for you not long ago enough? That's more than a generation away and closer to the invention of the language than today. pjmlp|23 days ago Worse than that, lets remember that WG14 rejected Dennis Ritchie proposal for fat pointers, and the C authors decided it was more fun to keep their own way with other programming languages than try to improve C from WG14.https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/varar... load replies (2)
1718627440|23 days ago > but it should've been fixed long ago.Is 27 years for you not long ago enough? That's more than a generation away and closer to the invention of the language than today. pjmlp|23 days ago Worse than that, lets remember that WG14 rejected Dennis Ritchie proposal for fat pointers, and the C authors decided it was more fun to keep their own way with other programming languages than try to improve C from WG14.https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/varar... load replies (2)
pjmlp|23 days ago Worse than that, lets remember that WG14 rejected Dennis Ritchie proposal for fat pointers, and the C authors decided it was more fun to keep their own way with other programming languages than try to improve C from WG14.https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/varar... load replies (2)
1718627440|23 days ago
Is 27 years for you not long ago enough? That's more than a generation away and closer to the invention of the language than today.
pjmlp|23 days ago
https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/varar...