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Subject: C language problems -- maybe we should leave it be?
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Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 10:11:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 20 10:11:18 1984
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C is an efficient, low-level language. It requires some sophistication
from programmers, and doesn't coddle the user with run-time error checking
and fantastically rich data types and operators. PL/I might be contrasted
to C in this regard. A recent posting proposed that sizeof(int) must be
at least as great as sizeof(char*), to preserve K&R "p1-p2" is of type "int"
for p1 and p2 pointers to objects of the same size.  There are many
architectures on which sizeof(int)