[sdiy] Programming Language Recommendation

[Ben Bradley]

The C99 standard points out one of the subtle differences between C
and C++, as well as between one standard and the previous.The
differences appear to have grown as the languages have gone through
revisions.

In the original C (and even in C++ today to remain compatible with so
much code that operates this way), a "boolean" was just an integer,
with false being the value 0 and true being any other value. C++ has
the intrinsic type bool as part of the language which can have a value
of either true or false, and this is preferred over using integers for
boolean operations. C99 copied this, NOT by adding an intrinsic type,
but by adding the stdbool.h header file to define these, as explained
at this link. Just reading through it shows how "minute" changes in
standards can cause problems with legacy code. Long story short, this
is why programming can be such a pain:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4767923/c99-boolean-data-type

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 1:48 AM john slee <indigoid at oldcorollas.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 07:48, Michael E Caloroso <mec.forumreader at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Give me mid-level languages like C any day.  You get non-cryptic error
> > messages that are solved quickly and the language has been cast in
> > stone since the 1980s.
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> If by "stone" you actually mean "mud", sure. The standard was updated in 1999 (C99), 2011 (C11) and again in 2018 (C17). Some major updates in there.
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> O'Reilly have a pretty good book covering the C99 changes called "21st Century C"
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> https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/21st-century-c/9781491904428/
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> John
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