OT: Requesting C advice

[Mike McCarty]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 

[Les wrote about "older" compilers]

>> Older? ANSI C is since 1989. I guess one could characterize 19 years
>> as "older". :-)
> 
> 
> C was old before ANSI came along.  Maybe we could revive the discussion 
> of why "abcd"[2] must evaluate to 'c'.

I wasn't explicit enough, I guess. I wouldn't characterize
19 years as "older", but rather as "antique" or "ancient"
in this context. I was objecting to using too weak a word,
not too strong a word :-)

Mike
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