Re: technology discussion → does the world need a "new" C ?

On 12.07.2024 08:00, David Brown wrote:

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I can understand when someone new to C gets mixed up about how arrays
work.

I can't understand that if I presume that the person has read any
basic textbook about "C".

I don't understand how someone can remain so stubbornly confused
when they have been told how C /actually/ works.

Especially if the one has said to have written an own language that
is close enough to "C" where I'd expect the knowledge to be there
already before that person is designing and implementing his project.

I wonder why he refuses to look up things if he thinks that all the
experts here are wrong about a well documented fact.

But maybe he has looked up some things, since lately he's squirming
by introducing terms like "_true_ pass-by-reference" [emphasis by me]
obviously trying to bend the semantics of the established technical
"pass-by-reference" term to fit his argument. (Introducing new terms
for existing mechanisms or bending semantics of existing terms with
well established meaning is certainly not helpful in any way.)

But, yes, that person is a phenomenon.

Janis