Re: Opinions about a book

Richard Heathfield wrote, On 05/05/08 11:26:
> Flash Gordon said:
> 
>> Richard Heathfield wrote, On 05/05/08 08:53:
>>> jacob navia said:
>>>
>>>> Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>>>> Even if it could be shown that most people *are* interested in C99
>>>>> (which I don't think anyone is really claiming), it still wouldn't
>>>>> explain why they *should* be.
>>>>>
>>>> Because is standard C.
>>> This still doesn't explain why most people should be interested in it.
>> <snip>
>>
>> So that they can write code that will be ****table to C99
implementations
> 
> Name six. :-)

Fred, Jim, Sheila, Jenny, George, and Matilda.

Well, you asked me to name them, not tell you what names they already 
had ;-)

>> rather than just C89/C90/C95. Admittedly that does not require much
>> knowledge of C99, however you can't ensure you are using the common
>> subset without knowing a bit about C99.
> 
> Yes. I program in that subset myself. Heaven knows why.

You want to maximise ****tability? There are, after all, a few C99 
implementations, and one day gcc might join those ranks.
-- 
Flash Gordon
Not holding my breath.