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If programming languages were weapons. Old but gold. (feddit.it)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And before the time people actually talked about the multidimensional clusterfuck that C become.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, to be honest C is still C, but it's children have run mad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

C changed from the 90's to now. It got a lot of syntactic improvements, and a ton of semantic madness.

Our C is not the same as the last generation's.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

--std=c99

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It doesn't change the madness. Just the syntax.