18 Jan 2001 graydon   » (Master)

ModernRonin raised the "how could C be improved" issue (without sacrificing its simplicity and minimalism, I assume), and the language geek in me can't resist commenting:

  1. hygenic macros or at least inline functions (some in c99)
  2. explicit sized integer types (in c99)
  3. namespaces & imports rather than #include
  4. pointer restrictions (some in c99)
  5. runtime-variable length arrays without resorting to alloca (in c99)
  6. a backtick operator
  7. a jump convention without resorting to setjmp/longjmp

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