Re: switch() Statement Question

jacob navia <jacob@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

The problem is that I am trying to improve the C language and
many people for different reasons will agree that C should be kept
as dead as possible.

[snip]

I have made myself a lot of enemies but there is something all those
can't deny: Today there were 351 downloads of my software from
the download site. Recently we passed the barrier of a million
downloads. My software remains very popular and has contributed
enormously to the dissemination of C and the C99 standard.

Hello Jacob,

I read here regularly but only post rarely. So I have seen your various
proposals for improving the C language and I am really puzzled by your
attachment to "standard C". It seems to me that the last paragraph
quoted above indicates that your windows software does indeed remain
popular. So why don't you simply call the language as compiled by your
compile something other than C? That way you could leave both standard
C and your "enemies" behind and move on with whatever improvements you
want to make, and you would not have to worry about getting those
improvements agreed by a standards committee, a process you clearly find
distasteful. If you called your C-like language naviaC or some such,
you could avoid all the disagreements here and concentrate on those
improvements. I am genuinely mystified by your attachment to a language
and a standard you regard as moribund, and to a standards process which
requires you to work with people you regard as enemies. These things
seem only to cause you pain and anger and do nothing to further a
language and a compiler which are evidently popular in their own right.

Best,
Tony
.

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