Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcnc!unc!rentsch From: rentsch@unc.cs.unc.edu (Tim Rentsch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Mesa is a dreadful language? Message-ID: <764@unc.cs.unc.edu> Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 20:29:16 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.764 Posted: Tue Jul 7 20:29:16 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 06:51:18 EDT References:<8268@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch) Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 21 In article <8268@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: > > As for type safety... Would > > you have us go the C route, where loophole is unnecessary because > > everything is an int? > > How many years has it been since you used C? Modern C is fairly strongly > typed, and getting more so all the time. (Note that if you are using a > PCC-based compiler, you are working with an implementation that is nearly > ten years old.) (If it's the one in 4.3BSD, it's also seriously buggy.) I use C all the time, although it is (mostly) 4.3BSD. On the other hand, I thought the C language definition (as opposed to any particular implementation) is "pointers are ints" and so forth. Am I wrong? (By language definition I mean K&R, of course, not any proposed standard.) Or are you just telling me that C compilers are getting better? That's a different horse altogether... cheers, Tim