C programming language/Talk

Do you think it's good to use /Evolution for writing down the changes, or /K and R C will suffice? Thanks, Uriyan

Actually I don't think either topic deserves a sub-page. I think a section on the main page would do. --drj

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=== Eccentricity ===

In C, the months of the year are numbered wrong. They are all low by 1. For example: January is month 0. December is month 11. This is not an obvious problem to English-speakers, but if your native language uses numbers to name the months of the year...

Numbering from 0 is not eccentricity. It's how computers think. --Taw

That also has nothing at all to do with the C language, but with the standard libraries--that distinction should be made. --LDC

I don't even think thats an eccentricity since its fairly common in programming to do it that way --Alan D

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The claim that C is the dominant microcomputer applications language is now somewhat dubious, IMHO. In the Windows world, it's probably a toss-up between Microsoft's C++ and Visual Basic, I'd guess. C still rules for embedded systems (that is, the ones not written in Assembler), in the Unix world (particularly for apps that don't have a GUI), and people who can't be bothered remembering C++'s arcane semantics for multiple inheritance and operator overloading :) --Robert Merkel