Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 08:39:43 -0500 Message-ID: <4DC9401F.497A@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 09:39:43 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Avoiding recursive stack overflow in C on Unix/Linux? References: <2f33e674-b127-4c35-89b5-dcbf564f3aab@h36g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <92reltF51pU8@mid.individual.net> <4DC8EEED.139F@mindspring.com> <92salqFggcU1@mid.individual.net> <4DC8FA8D.7E98@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 31 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.216.15 X-Trace: sv3-eI4LWmfnhArprqWkj10kVu0dFgSf3GcG92tczrARNofd4C77DGI8wQkK4XGkapJ17PcVjniZtTO9msn!dBxn8/U0O26t24gYbLxv5lClGna6jRWFXQnqyA27llgtjXg9BSco48oe/PXUuf6X671tNBYwaTSh!0cG8czte+w== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2662 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.unix.programmer:478 comp.lang.c:3680 boltar2003@boltar.world wrote: > > On Tue, 10 May 2011 04:42:53 -0400 > pete wrote: > >I can still write them in less time than it takes me to learn C++. > > Perhaps you should learn C++. I don't program professionally anymore. C code is just a hobby for me. Writing C code is what I do instead of crossword puzzles. Learning a new language just seems like work to me. > While it seems to be the case that the standards > committee doesn't seem to know when to leave well enough > alone and seem to want to turn it into the largest, > most unwieldy language the world has yet > seen by adding language "features" > that should really be left in libraries, > some of its basic functionality is very useful. > I'd rather not have to go back to function pointers > in structures to mimic OO again or have endless > function return value error checks > instead of just throwing exceptions. Like yourself with C++, I'm unenthusiastic about future changes to C. -- pete