[OT] Re: The chart of comp.lang.c

Rui Maciel wrote On 07/30/07 16:21,:
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:46:53 +0100, Malcolm McLean wrote:


"What colour is best for displaying C source?" is a C question. It is not
about the language standard, except in so far as it might influence our
colouring decisions, but it is certainly not a platform-specific matter.
Flashing indigo is distracting but the underscore is not?


You seem to be a bit confused. Font colours, or even font types for that
matter, have absolutely nothing to do with any programming languages, let
alone C. It isn't a matter of being a part of the language standard. It's
simply a matter of having absolutely nothing to do with the language.

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Oddly enough, more than twenty years ago I used a C
compiler where the font *did* make a difference, and a
rather large one: Source characters in a specified font
were ignored entirely.

No, it wasn't accidental. The compiler actually
re-wrote the source files it compiled, inserting its
warnings and error messages in-line in the new copy of
the source. Naturally, the messages were written in the
special font, so they would be ignored (and thus deleted)
at the next compilation.

The editor was able to search not only for specified
strings, but also for characters in a specified font;
this made "go to next error" a dead-simple operation.
Of course, it's pretty simple in a modern IDE -- but this
was more than two decades ago, on a 16-bit PDP-11/44 that
had nowhere near enough space or enough cycles to run an
IDE. And yet, the font-fakery provided one of the more
convenient IDE-ish features even on the limited hardware.

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