Re: why learn C?

[Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com>]

Martin Krischik wrote:

>>> missing curly-braces,
>>
>> The last time I missed the curly brace the compiler told me that.
> 
> The editor to fix deficiencies of the language - great!

There is no word "editor" above. I said "compiler".

> I guess he speaks of
> 
> if (X=1)
>   A=2;
>   B=2;
> 
> and
> 
> if (X=1);
>   A=2;
> 
> i.E. you forget the both - in which case no editor will help you.

My editor will help me. I have a coding standard that prevents me from 
writing if (same with while, for, etc.) without any braces, so the above 
will not even go to the compilation stage.
You can call it "fixing the defficiencies of the language", I call it 
"extending the static tool-chain which is already multiphase anyway". 
The final effect - which is really the only thing that matters - is that 
I *don't* have these problems.

But I agree that the bare possibility (standard-wise) to do the above is 
a bad thing.


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