Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C is fixed or not ? Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:09:26 +1200 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <97mi54FbcvU5@mid.individual.net> References: <4e116c59$0$13719$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <5fa80219-4bc8-4af8-9766-54501eb5ab90@j15g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net vT6q3NtPBWhim8g+IHbbvQjJt2W8CoI6ZucOI3k/4lMDIkc285 Cancel-Lock: sha1:VnlyN16pqzzGLApuaUpXVIzZYw0= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101021 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:7878 On 07/ 8/11 03:29 AM, Chris H wrote: > In message s.com>, christian.bau writes >> On Jul 4, 4:01 pm, Malcolm McLean >> wrote: >> >>> It's largely fixed. There was an attempt to update the language to >>> include features like variable-sized arrays, however it failed to be >>> widely accepted. The user community preferred the language as it was. >> >> Speak for yourself. Just as an example, just about every application >> running on an iPhone is written using a compiler that will compile C >> with variable-sized arrays by default (either LLVM / GCC4.2 or LLVM/ >> Clang). So how big is the "user community" that _you_ are talking >> about? > > How about the vast majority that don't use those compilers? If those compilers aren't used by the majority of C programmers, which one are? -- Ian Collins