[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/11/2019 5:26 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/11/2019 10:21 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> You know, makes one wonder.  Why did ANSI change so much trivial
>> stuff when the modified K&R to create ANSI-C and not fix any of
>> these supposed shortcomings?
> 
> If they had then C would have been much better for most applications
> but worse for operating system kernels.
> 
> I have no idea what the ANSI/ISO people were thinking back in the
> late 1980's.
> 
> But it seems quite plausible that the logic was "C does what
> it does - those that want a more safe language should pick
> another language".

Note that MS supposedly are considering towards Rust:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/18/microsoft_argues_for_memorysafe_languages_hints_at_move_from_c_to_rust

Arne