Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 10/1/24 6:24 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:

Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote or quoted:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

printf("hello world"); That's bug proof.

Wait, what? Where’s your error checking? What if your printf fails?
Actually that’s one of the things I like least about C. It leaves all error
checking up to the programmer instead of having even a minimal handler for
errors not otherwise caught.

    You could write a wrapper for printf, "myprintf",
   that will call printf and then do minimal error handling.
 #include <stdio.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
 int myprintf( char const * format, ... )
{ va_list args;
   va_start( args, format );
   int const result = vprintf( format, args );
   va_end( args );
        if( result < 0 )fprintf
   ( stderr, "Error: printf failed with return code %d\n", result );
        return result; }

   The whole context of 'C' was that COMPETENT PROGRAMMERS
   existed and could/would assess error conditions as THEY
   chose to do so.
   No 'nanny' stuff. If you write stuff that will nuke
   all memory then all memory, or worse, will be nuked.
   More modern langs, you don't even get the options/ops
   to handle a lot of this stuff intelligently.