Existing code is important, existing implementations are not. A large body of C code exists
of considerable commercial value. Every attempt has been made to ensure that the bulk of this
code will be acceptable to any implementation conforming to the Standard. The C89 Committee
20 did not want to force most programmers to modify their C programs just to have them accepted
by a conforming translator.
Note that this guiding principle was listed first. The author disagrees with one of their fundamental guiding principles. My point is that he then has a fundamental disagreement with the purpose of the standard, and for that reason, perhaps he is using the wrong tool.
If someone has the guiding principle X, and someone else has the guiding principle !X, I contend that difference is irreconcilable.
Existing code is important, existing implementations are not. A large body of C code exists of considerable commercial value. Every attempt has been made to ensure that the bulk of this code will be acceptable to any implementation conforming to the Standard. The C89 Committee 20 did not want to force most programmers to modify their C programs just to have them accepted by a conforming translator.
Note that this guiding principle was listed first. The author disagrees with one of their fundamental guiding principles. My point is that he then has a fundamental disagreement with the purpose of the standard, and for that reason, perhaps he is using the wrong tool.
If someone has the guiding principle X, and someone else has the guiding principle !X, I contend that difference is irreconcilable.