Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"

Muttley@dastardlyhq.org wrote:

On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 10:57:29 +0100
bart <bc@freeuk.com> wibbled:

On 02/04/2025 06:59, Alexis wrote:

 
Thought people here might be interested in this image on Jens Gustedt's
blog, which translates section 6.2.5, "Types", of the C23 standard
into a graph of inclusions:
 
   https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/a-diagram-of-c23-basic-types/
 

>
So much for C being a 'simple' language.

 
C should be left alone. It does what it needs to do for a systems language.
Almost no use uses it for applications any more and sophisticated processing
using complex types for example are far better done in C++.

C99 has VMT (variable modified types).  Thanks to VMT and complex types
C99 can naturaly do numeric computing that previously was done using
Fortran 77.  Offical C++ has no VMT.  C++ mechanizms look nicer,
but can be less efficient than using VMT-s, so C has advantage for
basic numeric "cores".

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