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From: rentsch@unc.cs.unc.edu (Tim Rentsch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Mesa is a dreadful language?
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Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 20:29:16 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  7 20:29:16 1987
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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