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0 pointsHexDecOctBin6mo ago0 comments

People chose C because they liked C. Of course they don't want C to change. The only thing the ISO committee should be adding is stuff for filling in the holes in language (C23's Improved Tag Compatibility and __VA_OPT__ are good examples), not add features that were never part of C and were never supposed to be there.

Your question can be reflected back to you: if you want an ever changing languages, go to Java, C# or C++, why mess with C?

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xboxnolifes6mo ago

> People chose C because they liked C. Of course they don't want C to change.

The same thing can be said for every other language, yet they change.

WalterBright6mo ago

A common thing people write about D is don't add any more features except for their feature proposals. :-)

oguz-ismail6mo ago

Well they shouldn't have. It was much more fun to program in Python 2.7 and Java 7, I wouldn't touch those languages with a five feet pole these days

lifthrasiir6mo ago

Why specifically Python 2.7 and not, like, 1.5? Python 1 and 2 are as different as 2 and 3 (that is, surprisingly not much).

pjmlp6mo ago

No, many people chose C, because they had to.

sarchertech6mo ago

Yeah but those people are running it on some platform where it’s the only choice. And they are probably running a subset of C99. The likelihood of new features ever making it to those platforms is close to zero.

pjmlp6mo ago

There is hardly any new C compiler that isn't C11.

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brabel6mo ago

This is funny because Java people say the same about Kotlin and Scala.

WalterBright6mo ago

C added the absurd normalized Unicode identifiers.

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