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Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3a_technology_discussion_=e2=86=92_does_the_world_need?= =?UTF-8?B?IGEgIm5ldyIgQyA/?= Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 19:01:54 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: <v6bta2$3svoi$2@dont-email.me> References: <v66eci$2qeee$1@dont-email.me> <v67gt1$2vq6a$2@dont-email.me> <v687h2$36i6p$1@dont-email.me> <871q48w98e.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <v68dsm$37sg2$1@dont-email.me> <87plrsultu.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <v68sft$3a6lh$1@dont-email.me> <87ed87v4wi.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <v6adrm$3ljg6$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2024 19:01:54 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="20b5424f44ca4901e0f38dccd284eff6"; logging-data="4095762"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19OgZh1NuOGyecQqX0Y06jL2UTXG1723oo=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:RdaUNpwMgGSUQG694F3munW6YBI= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <v6adrm$3ljg6$1@dont-email.me> Bytes: 1919 On 06/07/2024 05:30, BGB wrote: > > Ironically, I probably should have leaned harder into the "daisy chained > types" interpretation, rather than treating it as an undesirable > implementation tradeoff. > I once had to use a very limited C compiler that supported arrays, and structs, but not arrays of structs or structs containing arrays. It was truly a PITA. A language that has such inconvenient limitations would be unusable for me - I'd rather go back to using BASIC on a ZX Spectrum.