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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: Bart's list of '100 things'
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:40:31 +0100
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On 28/03/2025 16:25, James Harris wrote:
> On 28/03/2025 15:13, James Harris wrote:
> 
>> I hesitate to post this request to c.l.c as I recall some of the 
>> arguments - not of the function-call kind! Unfortunately, I have been 
>> unable to find the list by other means.
>>
>> In 2014 Bart posted a list of over 100 things he disliked about C. I 
>> was looking for that list just now and couldn't find it.
>>
>> To Bart, if he is reading this, could you post the list somewhere 
>> again? The only one I found was in 2014:
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.misc/c/nlKwe1SdRKs/m/XQHn-KJH_6YJ
> 
> To be clear, that link only references the list. The list details were 
> in a pastebin link that has long ago expired.
> 
>>
>> It may or may not have grown since then. Even if it's not in a 
>> polished form I'd still like to see it. I remember agreeing with a lot 
>> of it and wanted to compare my own language against it so a post to 
>> comp.lang.misc would be just as good as a reply here, whichever is 
>> convenient.
> 
> 

Bart's email address is, as far as I know, valid.  It seems appropriate 
to contact him by email here.  If you want your discussion about your 
language to be in public, rather than just with Bart, then 
comp.lang.misc is probably the best place.

It would be a good idea if Bart's list did not come up here in 
comp.lang.c again.  It would likely lead to a lengthy thread that goes 
nowhere - most C programmers are already aware of the real issues with 
C, and Bart has never shown any interest in correcting his 
misunderstandings about the language.  But if you think looking at the 
list could help improve your own language, then I hope Bart can help you 
out.