Re: Bart's list of '100 things'

On 28/03/2025 16:06, bart wrote:

On 28/03/2025 15:13, James Harris wrote:

I hesitate to post this request to c.l.c as I recall some of the arguments - not of the function-call kind! Unfortunately, I have been unable to find the list by other means.
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In 2014 Bart posted a list of over 100 things he disliked about C. I was looking for that list just now and couldn't find it.
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To Bart, if he is reading this, could you post the list somewhere again? The only one I found was in 2014:
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https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.misc/c/nlKwe1SdRKs/m/XQHn-KJH_6YJ
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It may or may not have grown since then. Even if it's not in a polished form I'd still like to see it. I remember agreeing with a lot of it and wanted to compare my own language against it so a post to comp.lang.misc would be just as good as a reply here, whichever is convenient.
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TIA
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  I've put a collection of those files here: https://github.com/sal55/ langs/tree/master/cthings
 I haven't looked through them, but CTHINGS2016.TXT looks ancient; I'd concentrate on CTHINGS.MD and CTHING2022.MD (which confusingly is dated 2016 inside).
 There is also CANDM.MD which is expanded to /200/ things, and is a more direct comparison with my language, but that I expect is now quite dated. I like to move mine along!

I've now read through that and it is actually quite a decent comparison. I think I'll update that and make it available as CANDM2025.MD in due course.
It gives a snappier overview than the 'mfeatures' file I posted recently that goes into more detail.