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Comment by Gibbon1

3 years ago

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?

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gumby  3 years ago

Because it's one of the very few -- almost only -- languages with this objective.

  • Gibbon1  3 years ago

    Whose objective? The people that use it or the people that sit on the standards committee?

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