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"Wes Groleau" <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message
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> >> I feel the same way, _but_ what I was saying is that
> >> potential "converts" try to compile something five or six
> >> times and then go back to C.  They never find out about
> >> how it prevents errors down the road, because they back up
> >> and take the other road.
> >
> > Yet, many of them forget about the same experience they had when
> > they were first learning C ;-)
>
> They didn't have that experience when they were
> first learning C.  C doesn't complain when you
> assign a char to a bool or a bool to an int.
> Nor does C complain when you use an assignment
> for a conditional or vice versa.  Nor does a
> C compiler tell you it's illegal to use 100 for
> an index when the array ends at 10.  et cetera

Actually, under certain circumstances, gcc will complain about assigning
e.g. a bool to an int.

I had to fix a few of those recently, when I installed GNU Common LISP on a
Linux box.  I suppose I should've sent FSF some bug reports against them...