Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: _BitInt(N) Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:06:13 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 22 Message-ID: <87y0nm7yru.fsf@example.invalid> References: <10dajlh$ko3c$1@dont-email.me> <10fus62$hl69$1@solani.org> <10fv2dm$3can9$1@paganini.bofh.team> <10fv40v$1f7a2$1@dont-email.me> <87ms4c4bom.fsf@example.invalid> <10g08vm$1us25$1@dont-email.me> <10g1et7$2bmus$1@dont-email.me> <10g1j7h$2deh9$1@dont-email.me> <10g1qq9$2f8lb$4@dont-email.me> <10g28gm$2mf9s$1@dont-email.me> <10g2f2d$2oufq$1@dont-email.me> <10g2m3v$2s5sa$1@dont-email.me> <10g53au$3onvh$1@dont-email.me> <10g58pa$3r273$1@dont-email.me> <10g6bpp$60nh$1@dont-email.me> <10g6qek$bfrp$1@dont-email.me> <10g742m$ev96$2@dont-email.me> <10g779l$h980$1@dont-email.me> <10g7aci$icq7$1@dont-email.me> <10g7hm2$lpsu$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:06:14 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8213f2dfee378269bbe79a5548f849a1"; logging-data="1754594"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19E5TupEEPvM5SFhZeikpCu" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GTxYl0RWi+FA6LdL4JrgX9+R0pc= sha1:Vbfh70XCSBpCupvxaCufnAXJmnE= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:395640 bart writes: [...] > Well, it would be a minority. Grown-up languages with decent syntax > exist such as Ada and Fortran; those are not that popular. People > prefer brace-based languages such as C, Java, Go, Zig, Rust. > > Anything without braces isn't taken as seriously, eg. scripting languages. [...] The use of curly braces vs. begin/end is IMHO trivial. But most languages that use curly braces are strongly influenced by C, and are likely to share other C features like C-style for loops. Languages that use begin/end or similar are typically influenced, directly or indirectly, by Pascal and/or Algol. Someone who dislikes C for whatever reasons will probably dislike most other languages that use curly braces, and not necessarily because of that one syntactic detail. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */