Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C, and what it is for Message-ID: <8542@smoke.ARPA> Date: 20 Sep 88 20:30:42 GMT References: <8809092242.AA20696@BOEING.COM> <8537@smoke.ARPA> <615@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 13 In article <615@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) writes: >Marvelous. Now how does this answer the complaint ... First of all, don't replace my words with your mistaken summary of them (the "[...]" stuff you put under my attribution in your response). Next, the relevance of my comment was that many things various members of the "numerical programming community" have said they need to be added to C are not in fact necessary and some of them would be a bad idea for the language as a whole. Some of the requests are reasonable, and some have in fact been acted on by X3J11. The one system programmer who suggested that C should only be used for system programming, that prompted your initial response, certainly does not speak for the entire C community. In fact I do a large amount of numerical programming in C.