Programming Languages


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A lot of people want to make badly designed programming languages easier to use by giving them fancy IDE’s. This makes sense if you are forced to use a badly designed language. I think it would be better to try making well designed languages instead.
James Moen

When the ANSI C standard was under development, the pragma directive was introduced. Borrowed from Ada, #pragma is used to convey hints to the compiler, such as the desire to expand a particular function in-line or suppress range checks. Not previously seen in C, pragma met with some initial resistance from a gcc implementor, who took the “implementation-defined” effect very literally—in gcc version 1.34, the use of pragma causes the compiler to stop compiling and launch a computer game instead! ...more
Peter van der Linden, Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

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