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0 pointsmnurzia3y ago0 comments

This was my one of my main justifications for making this design choice, in addition to the (in my opinion) overwhelming amount of break statements that would result from using switches. But more importantly, many of the "if" statements have non-constant or more complex expressions in them that aren't supported in switch statements in ANSI C.

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sylware3y ago

Yep.

And as you stated, it is important to stay as much as possible close to c89, because ISO is literaly doing planned obsolescence, but on a long time cycle (5-10 years).

Hopefully risc-v will be a success, and all system components and interpreters of very-high-level languages will be rewritten in risc-v assembly and it will become actually very hard to do planned-obsolescence.

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