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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> 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 13:47:43 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: <v6c3ip$3u078$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> <v6bta2$3svoi$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2024 20:48:57 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d3c5ef1cde4e45ddc2826fbe07375cf5"; logging-data="4129000"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18iF1rclbmM71jd0Elg82ztN6azrQt2bqI=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:6UkzjZRPymiAoClvMebPqKprnoc= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <v6bta2$3svoi$2@dont-email.me> Bytes: 1950 On 7/6/2024 12:01 PM, David Brown wrote: > 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. > I would not assume going quite that far.