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From: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 100 Things
Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 13:42:00 +1200
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BartC wrote:
>
> As for C being minimalist, I don't know if a language needing these types
> and macros (remembering to substitute all the combinations of 8 16, 32 and
> 64 every time you see N):

<snip long list>

Give a lowish level language such as C works "close to the metal" on a 
wide variety of hardware, how would you avoid having a collection of 
fixed width types?

I agree there's a better way of (but not within the limits of C) to 
specify the limits, but they require some form of generics (such as C++ 
std::numeric_limits).

-- 
Ian Collins