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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Difference between these pointer syntaxes
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> Is nobody going to admit to C's approach to this stuff is completely
> lousy? I get that the language is what it is, but you don't need to
> pretend it's wonderful.
[...]

One rarely sees a strawman argument in such pure form.

Who has claimed that C is "wonderful"?  I certainly haven't.
There are plenty of things I dislike about C's design.  Its treatment
of arrays and pointers is one of them.  It's internally consistent,
quite usable, and not nearly as complicated as some make it out to
be, but it's hardly "wonderful".

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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