ISO C is increasingly moronic

C is a very robust language which is hard to ruin, but ISO surely is trying. The latest draft has a new mandatory one-macro #include file, and new incompatible and useless thread API, but still not compiler support for big-endian/little-endian variables or structure packing to match protocol specifications.
283 points phkamp 15 years ago 167 comments

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