Path: csiph.com!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 01:35:59 -0600 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Compiler design in C? References: <0915fef9-bb57-48b7-b98a-342f0e5ee39f@googlegroups.com> <0aeb9981-9b6c-48e2-82d0-6a322032fcd1@googlegroups.com> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:35:58 +0000 Message-ID: <877f8bss69.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:c3ocBWcIGfPUzHlxMlGqZATudCY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 13 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-gb3++QQU04XH+5hk5s9PdV6YAKLNV9nprcRVooGlQD0thOOU2FHGmqUmDWw8pMgcYqHV+ZgA/pHy/7L!xqzD9rNFbj/jXdtqcdl4d4GOC4ob9hteKU3++T+o0MjiZ7WJctYhTgvEUPYQzhmf2OqP 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: 1823 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:96266 Ian Collins writes: > On 11/10/16 10:32 AM, jacobnavia wrote: >> >> In face of such problems I think simpler solutions are possible and even >> better than C++: >> >> The C language. Let's simplify. > > Once C can do RAII, I might agree :) So might I, and in any other week that would be considered a terrible omen of the apocalypse.