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Re: The C Containers library

From Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: The C Containers library
Date 2015-11-02 07:23 +1300
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Malcolm McLean wrote:
> On Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 4:37:09 PM UTC, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
>>
>> Yes really.  Nothing I said is wrong.
>>
> Robotics is hard, and most people start by trying to simplify the#
> environment the robot works in.
> However I've been told, by people I believe, that the insight you
> need is to simplify the robot. If the robot is simple enough, it
> can cope with pretty much anything the environment throws at it.
>
> There's an analogy with containers. Simplify the language, and many
> of the problems and issues just disappear. It's not that it's hard
> to write an abstract container in C, it's that the problems simply
> don't arise, there's no complexity to abstract over.

If you simplify the language, you move the problems from the language to 
the programmer.  Otherwise we would all be writing our code in binary.

-- 
Ian Collins

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The C Containers library jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-11-01 10:24 +0100
  Re: The C Containers library Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-01 22:43 +1300
    Re: The C Containers library jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-11-01 12:08 +0100
      Re: The C Containers library Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-02 10:46 +1300
        Re: The C Containers library jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-11-01 23:10 +0100
  Re: The C Containers library gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-11-01 10:57 +0000
  Re: The C Containers library Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-11-01 10:57 +0000
    Re: The C Containers library Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-11-01 03:30 -0800
      Re: The C Containers library Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-11-01 16:36 +0000
        Re: The C Containers library Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-11-01 10:04 -0800
          Re: The C Containers library Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-02 07:23 +1300
            Re: The C Containers library Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-11-01 13:25 -0800
            Re: The C Containers library supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-01 15:44 -0800
          Re: The C Containers library Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-11-01 23:50 +0000
            Re: The C Containers library Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-11-02 01:19 -0800
              Re: The C Containers library Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-02 22:33 +1300
                Re: The C Containers library Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-11-02 02:04 -0800
  Re: The C Containers library Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-01 12:04 -0800
    Re: The C Containers library Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-11-01 15:41 -0500
      Re: The C Containers library Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-01 13:26 -0800
        Re: The C Containers library Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-11-01 16:50 -0500

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