Re: Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard

From: Randy Howard (randyhoward_at_FOOverizonBAR.net)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:48:24 GMT

In article <opsmv0w2dbzgicya@hyrrokkin>, tom@kednos.com says...
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:43:34 GMT, Randy Howard
> <randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net> wrote:
> >> I have always regarded range/bounds checking and exception handling as
> >> necessary and integral to well designed code.
> >
> > True, but implementing it specifically seems easier to do efficiently
> > than implementing a generic bounds checker for J. Random Program.
>
> It is part of PL/I.

Which is very likely one of the reasons that C is so widely used for
low-level programming today and PL/I is not.

You can't have your cake and eat it too, at least not so far. 

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