Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: function declaration without args no longer works Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:48:21 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: <86tssszy62.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <10sl5na$5ov$1@reader1.panix.com> <20260426175044.000062ff@yahoo.com> <10slf3h$mho$3@reader1.panix.com> <10smamp$1vlj2$2@dont-email.me> <10smvq5$25a7q$2@dont-email.me> <10spm2q$5fq$1@reader1.panix.com> <10spqdr$2vs2g$1@dont-email.me> <10ss83f$c4t$1@reader1.panix.com> <10ssb73$3mum2$1@dont-email.me> <20260429112553.00006835@yahoo.com> <10ssit3$3pds0$1@dont-email.me> <10su6fn$9qef$2@dont-email.me> <10su6t5$a7c6$2@dont-email.me> <10su9d9$auae$1@dont-email.me> <10sua3s$11tq$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:48:24 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7ff432f926fb921b7df3a70694682c9f"; logging-data="540096"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18wz4u5sclNsGlCXEMfDixzn9bxP71vH7s=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/fJ9jIc4AqD7NkwSs8xkbwWGyqg= sha1:H2J0sThiSxz1cEhhPiwdgn7r49A= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:398123 Janis Papanagnou writes: > On 2026-04-30 02:57, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: > >> On 4/29/2026 5:14 PM, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:07:19 -0400, James Kuyper wrote: >>> >>>> I've known Fortran programmers who said that it was the only really >>>> good language for such purposes, who changed their mind when C99 >>>> came out. >>> >>> I think Fortran still has the edge in its coarrays and support for >>> expressing massively-parallel computations. >> >> C11 and C++11 have std threading, so, we can do that. > > Yet, in the early 1970's, four decades before 2011, there were also > other HLLs already existing with native support for complex numbers > and parallelism. PL/I had both, IIRC starting in the mid 1960s.