Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: usecases of void foo(char **b) {}
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:10:00 -0800
Organization: None to speak of
Lines: 18
Message-ID: <lnwpgeq7fr.fsf@kst-u.example.com>
References: <f04d8120-e4c9-464b-923c-7dc262da5b5b@googlegroups.com> <87eg2pedkx.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <nvlrks$e8i$1@dont-email.me> <87wpghcu23.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <nvm3i5$4tu$1@dont-email.me> <877f8gx44n.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <nvn53j$hig$1@dont-email.me> <nvn908$tu2$1@dont-email.me> <nvne52$fri$1@dont-email.me> <nvnfs9$m6u$1@dont-email.me> <nvnjck$4cd$1@dont-email.me> <nvnjs9$6dv$1@dont-email.me> <nvnlsf$dpb$1@dont-email.me> <nvnpub$t1m$1@dont-email.me> <nvnvl7$imr$1@dont-email.me> <ln4m3ktivm.fsf@kst-u.example.com> <nvo6td$e5s$1@dont-email.me> <bdc8241d-ef76-4b17-b29f-3b39de382f7b@googlegroups.com> <nvqt7k$q08$1@dont-email.me> <6c5b4a41-3116-4fe9-86a2-97ba4aed856c@googlegroups.com> <nvss4r$coj$1@dont-email.me>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e43f89eff67778d2e2548cd041b513fe"; logging-data="15168"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18fyjifeAF435xhEVrsMld1"
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:JKMBlR2+uM5SRQYqMlskT9XtZ4c= sha1:TJuzndgIccFybAVCCz4l1cpy9Qc=
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:96094

BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 08/11/2016 15:02, John Bode wrote:
[...]
>> We simply choose to work with
>> the language as it is, learn its rules, learn where it's dangerous, and
>> write reasonably safe and understandable code within its constraints.
>
> Apart from the people who went on to create Objective C, C#, C++, Java...?

Yes.  The creators of those languages didn't change C itself; they
created their own languages that they liked better.  I don't see them
whining here.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"