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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 15:16:24 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 14:12:18 -0000 (UTC)
antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) wibbled:
>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,

Officially no, but I've never come across a C++ compiler that didn't support
them given they're all C compilers too.

>but can be less efficient than using VMT-s, so C has advantage for
>basic numeric "cores".

Maybe, my knowledge of the internals of C++ std:array and std::vector arn't
good enough to argue the point.