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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 16:46:52 +0000
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On 28/03/2025 16:06, bart 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
>>
>> 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've now read through that and it is actually quite a decent comparison. 
I think I'll update that and make it available as CANDM2025.MD in due 
course.

It gives a snappier overview than the 'mfeatures' file I posted recently 
that goes into more detail.