guido@mcvax.uucp (Guido van Rossum) (11/10/86)
In article <7307@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >There have actually been remarkably few non-standard additions to C by >compiler writers -- a considerable tribute to Dennis's skill at devising >a language that lets you do what you want. I don't want to comment on Dennis's skills, but for microcomputer C compilers (as opposed to Unix compilers) I have noted remarkably many non-standard additions (not to mention omissions of standard features): pascal extern declarations, far and near pointers, floating types extended and comp, comments strting with // and extending to line end... I've even had a beta test copy of a compiler that implemented nested function declarations like in Pascal. -- Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@mcvax.uucp>