[fpc-devel] Re: fpc-devel Digest, Vol 112, Issue 32

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Steve wrote:

>  >> We can agree on that at least, although I must say that C has 
>  >> improved a lot since K&R days.
> 
> I'm afraid I can't agree on that one.

I think it's fair to say that nobody here /likes/ C, otherwise he'd not 
be working on Pascal. But a few weeks ago I had to knock together a 
Linux kernel module, and I will state as a fact that if C still had the 
same level of syntax checking etc. that it had in the late '80s I'd 
probably have failed dismally.

Of course, if I weren't bone idle I'd have investigated whether FPC has 
the ability to target the kernel module format, although I'm fairly sure 
that nobody's tried it on SPARC before now.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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