Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"

In article <2025Apr16.232617@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> writes:

You can tune the behavior of most C compilers as well - comply to a
certain standard. Don't tell me you can't do that with Forth (because
you can).

>
C standards avoid incompatible changes as good as they can.  However,
because C is a keyword-based language and redefining existing names
produces an error in C, even adding a single keyword or a single name
can break compatibility with an existing program, and the compilers
allow you to dial the specific standard in order to deal with that.

Oh? For example 'static' in a c-source has the meaning of making a name
invisile to the outside world.
A normal person would call that 'local', especially given that static
actually meant residing in heap memory.
So as the c-expert hired for Fico moldings I introduced a file
fico.h with a line

    #define static local

(and the line
    #define TRUE 1
because they came from Pascal and thought that TRUE was -1 ).

- anton

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