Re: Is Chris Hills a troll?

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:29:04 -0600, Chris Hills wrote
(in article <YmYwtAMQUPmHFAXt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

In article
<eb91686b-48a6-495f-a4a9-05e8ee631f2e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
user923005 <dcorbit@xxxxxxxxx> writes
On Jan 24, 3:26 am, Richard Heathfield <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris Hills said:

<snip>

OK... Do we want to start a list of things to drop from the next ISO C.

All the C99 additions can go (see elsethread for my very short list of
exceptions).

Whether you use them or not, what conceivable harm is created by their
inclusion? This seems a very strange statement to me.

Because then tools have to include them to be compliant.

If the
additions made C99 incompatible with C90, then I can imagine some
cause for complaint. If there were (for instance) 10,000 math
functions added to the math library, I do not see how it could cause
any difficulties unless you intended to use them.

Because library writers and compiler companies would have to include
them.

Here is what I think C is missing {including both C90 & C99} (above
all else):
Complete, thorough Unicode handling.

Not sure on that one. Most of us don't need unicode.

Its lack is a major reason people pick other languages for writing apps
that need to work world-wide. The reason "us" don't need it, is that
we're the ones left. That said, C's primary purpose is device drivers,
system internals and embedded (there's my bias speaking), so unicode is
a don't care. I'm don't see any reason for C to try and compete for
attention amongst higher level GUI developers at this late stage.



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