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From: bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Bart's list of '100 things'
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:06:55 +0000
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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
> 
> 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.
> 
> TIA
> 


I've put a collection of those files here: 
https://github.com/sal55/langs/tree/master/cthings

I haven't looked through them, but CTHINGS2016.TXT looks ancient; I'd 
concentrate on CTHINGS.MD and CTHING2022.MD (which confusingly is dated 
2016 inside).

There is also CANDM.MD which is expanded to /200/ things, and is a more 
direct comparison with my language, but that I expect is now quite 
dated. I like to move mine along!

I no longer do this kind of comparison, and there is now a bit of a gulf 
between the two languages anyway, even if both are still at the same 
level compared with anything else.

An overview of my current one is in MFEATURES.MD which is one directory 
level above.