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Re: "Death To C"

From Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: "Death To C"
Date 2015-05-04 22:51 +0200
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On Mon, 4 May 2015 13:26:53 -0700 (PDT)
Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> wrote:

> On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 9:16:43 PM UTC+1, Melzzzzz wrote:
> > On Mon, 04 May 2015 14:41:44 -0500
> > Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > "Death To C"
> > >     http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/02/and-c-plus-plus-too/
> > > 
> > > "Ladies and gentlemen, the C programming language. It's a
> > > classic. It is sleek, and spartan, and elegant. (Especially
> > > compared to its sequel, that bloated mess C++, which shares all
> > > the faults I'm about to describe.) It is blindingly, quicksilver
> > > fast, because it's about as close to the bone of the machine as
> > > you can get. It is time-tested and ubiquitous. And it is
> > > terrifyingly dangerous."
> > > 
> > > So what else is new?
> > > 
> > > Lynn
> > "
> > ...Which is why I'm so interested in Rust.
> > "
> > 
> > Please compare this elegant C program:
> > http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=nbody&lang=gcc&id=1
> > with this ugly mess, that Rust is:
> > http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=nbody&lang=rust&id=1
> >
> This sort of stuff
> 
> /// Pop a mutable reference off the head of a slice, mutating the
> slice to no
> 
> /// longer contain the mutable reference.
> 
> fn shift_mut_ref<'a, T>(r: &mut &'a mut [T]) -> Option<&'a mut T> {
> 
>     if r.len() == 0 { return None }
> 
>     let tmp = std::mem::replace(r, &mut []);
> 
>     let (h, t) = tmp.split_at_mut(1);
> 
>     *r = t;
> 
>     Some(&mut h[0])
> 
> }
> 
> is unacceptable in a general purpose language.

That's what I am talking about. This simple program demonstrates where
"safety" leads...

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"Death To C" Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2015-05-04 14:41 -0500
  Re: "Death To C" Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-05-04 22:16 +0200
    Re: "Death To C" Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-05-04 13:26 -0700
      Re: "Death To C" Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-05-04 22:51 +0200
      Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-04 22:02 +0100
        Re: "Death To C" Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-05-05 00:06 +0200
  Re: "Death To C" Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-05-04 13:22 -0700
    Re: "Death To C" Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-05-04 22:41 +0200
      Re: "Death To C" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-04 20:25 -0500
        Bounds checking in C (Was: "Death To C") gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-05-05 02:15 +0000
          Re: Bounds checking in C (Was: "Death To C") BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-06 10:23 -0500
        Re: "Death To C" Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2015-05-04 21:36 -0500
          Re: "Death To C" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-05 01:01 -0500
            Re: "Death To C" Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2015-05-05 12:23 -0500
          Re: "Death To C" CHIN Dihedral <dihedral88888@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 03:06 -0700
        Re: "Death To C" Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-05 17:43 +1200
          Re: "Death To C" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-05 01:00 -0500
            Re: "Death To C" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-05 01:13 -0500
              Re: "Death To C" Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-05 19:15 +1200
                Re: "Death To C" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-05 02:41 -0500
                Re: "Death To C" Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-05 20:12 +1200
        Re: "Death To C" glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-05-05 06:48 +0000
        Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-05 10:57 +0100
          Re: "Death To C" asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-05 16:53 -0700
          Re: "Death To C" Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-05-06 08:10 +0100
            Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-06 09:53 +0100
              Re: "Death To C" Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-06 13:49 +0100
                Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-06 14:29 +0100
                Re: "Death To C" Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-05-06 09:43 -0700
                Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-06 18:24 +0100
          Re: "Death To C" asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-08 00:44 -0700
            Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-08 13:49 +0100
    Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-04 22:15 +0100
      Re: "Death To C" BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-08 09:09 -0500
    Re: "Death To C" Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-05-04 16:18 -0500
    Re: "Death To C" Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-05 12:49 +1200
  Re: "Death To C" raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-05-08 21:52 +0000
  Re: "Death To C" Merikissa <merikissa@no.spam.net> - 2015-05-10 04:04 +0300
  Re: "Death To C" "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-05-13 08:11 -0700
    Re: "Death To C" David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-13 10:00 -0700
      Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-13 18:20 +0100
        Re: "Death To C" David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-14 10:47 -0700
          Re: "Death To C" "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-05-14 11:09 -0700
          Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-15 19:21 +0100
            Re: "Death To C" David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-16 09:10 -0700
              Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-16 20:45 +0100
                Re: "Death To C" David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-17 09:38 -0700
        Re: "Death To C" raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-05-17 10:47 +0000
          Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-17 12:20 +0100
      Re: "Death To C" "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-05-13 10:24 -0700
        Re: "Death To C" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-05-13 22:01 +0200
    Re: "Death To C" Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-05-14 07:48 +0100

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