[Info-vax] Rust as a HS language, was: Re: Quiet?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/8/2022 4:12 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 4/8/22 13:23, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 4/8/2022 1:13 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> As I stated elsewhere, the change to ANSI C from K&R broke
>>> everything.  You can not compile K&R with an ANSI C Compiler
>>> and vice versa.  What better time to fix it all?
>>
>> Not everything.
> 
> If you can't compile K&R with an ANSI C compiler and you can't
> compile ANSI C with a K&R compiler what exactly didn't get broken?

I believe the breaking change was the function prototyping.

Which obviously have broad impact. But are also rather
trivial. I would assume plenty of conversion tools were
created.

Arne