On 19/05/15 22:02, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 11/05/2015 10:23, Martin Brown wrote:
The world might have been a much better place if the early CPU address
space had been too big to fit into an integer so that C could not use
integers and pointers quite so interchangeably.

s/C/poor programmers/

Some of us have always known better. (But then the Dec10 I first used
for assembler had 18-bit addresses and 36-bit integers)

Andy
yerrs. The world is full of people clamouring for someone else to
protect them from the consequences of their own indiscipline and idiocy
isn't it?

C is like a chainsaw. Respect it.


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