Seven Original Sins of K&R (Long)

[Dan Salomon]

In article <sazwbR600Vp6IHhVVV at andrew.cmu.edu> vd09+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio) writes:
> I don't know about this.  There are (unfortunately) still so many
> pre-ANSI compilers and so much pre-ANSI code (not to mention code that
> depends on the existence of the other "sins" that you mentioned) in use
> that it would be ridiculous for the time being to abandon backward
> compatibility.

Much more code is going to be written in C than currently exists.
Should we sacrifice all the code to come for the sake of the existing
code?
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Dan Salomon -- salomon at ccu.UManitoba.CA