Comment by gumby
3 years ago
As the GP post comments, if you want those features there are plenty of other languages to choose from.
I don’t even like programming in C but I respect what the committee is trying to do, and yes I do sometimes write C code.
I'll flip that around if you want to serve on a language standards commit there are a lot of other languages to choose from. Why be on the C standards committee with the express purpose of blocking progress?
Because it's one of the very few -- almost only -- languages with this objective.
Whose objective? The people that use it or the people that sit on the standards committee?