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| From | Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Spurious diagnostic messages |
| Date | 2015-09-27 12:01 +1300 |
| Message-ID | <d6omdkFqr3pU9@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (17 earlier) <kfnfv4bfw05.fsf@x-alumni2.alumni.caltech.edu> <mpkvb8$4aj$1@dont-email.me> <kfntwr7tomc.fsf@x-alumni2.alumni.caltech.edu> <d548g8FndfhU1@mid.individual.net> <kfn4mihgovy.fsf@x-alumni2.alumni.caltech.edu> |
Tim Rentsch wrote: > Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes: > >> You won't see any discussions regarding which is the better standard >> like we see here in C++ forums. The C++ community embraces the new >> standards because they give us what we have been asking for. > > C developers choose (to code to) different versions of the C > standard for a variety of reasons. It is partly in recognition > of this that WG14 is more conservative with regards to what > additions or changes are made. Isn't that argument self-contradictory? If WG14 were more conservative, C99 would have been more widely accepted and C developers wouldn't be faced with the choice of writing modern C or portable C. The two would be the same. -- Ian Collins
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Re: Spurious diagnostic messages Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-26 08:51 -0700
Re: Spurious diagnostic messages Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-09-27 12:01 +1300
Re: Spurious diagnostic messages Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-04 09:24 -0700
Re: Spurious diagnostic messages Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-05 17:32 +1300
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