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From: antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch)
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 14:12:18 -0000 (UTC)
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Muttley@dastardlyhq.org wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 10:57:29 +0100
> bart <bc@freeuk.com> wibbled:
>>On 02/04/2025 06:59, Alexis wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thought people here might be interested in this image on Jens Gustedt's
>>> blog, which translates section 6.2.5, "Types", of the C23 standard
>>> into a graph of inclusions:
>>> 
>>>    https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/a-diagram-of-c23-basic-types/
>>> 
>>
>>So much for C being a 'simple' language.
> 
> C should be left alone. It does what it needs to do for a systems language.
> Almost no use uses it for applications any more and sophisticated processing
> using complex types for example are far better done in C++.

C99 has VMT (variable modified types).  Thanks to VMT and complex types
C99 can naturaly do numeric computing that previously was done using
Fortran 77.  Offical C++ has no VMT.  C++ mechanizms look nicer,
but can be less efficient than using VMT-s, so C has advantage for
basic numeric "cores".

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                              Waldek Hebisch