Yes. I was aware when I said that. C predates POSIX-like application development and grew into being useful in that role. Particularly in the sciences a lot of that COBOL arena influence went into C programs and it…
That depends on how long your memory is regarding C. Working that way was natural and idiomatic C, once upon a time. It reflects the computer, remember.
You are also somewhat describing C, in one manner of speaking. Yes, C helps you with syntactic approaches to manage stack and locals, but a large amount of written C operates exactly as you describe for a wide, wide…
Yes. I was aware when I said that. C predates POSIX-like application development and grew into being useful in that role. Particularly in the sciences a lot of that COBOL arena influence went into C programs and it…
That depends on how long your memory is regarding C. Working that way was natural and idiomatic C, once upon a time. It reflects the computer, remember.
You are also somewhat describing C, in one manner of speaking. Yes, C helps you with syntactic approaches to manage stack and locals, but a large amount of written C operates exactly as you describe for a wide, wide…