David Kastrup wrote:
In my opinion there is basically one area which C has botched up seriously in order to be useful as a general purpose language, and that is conflating pointers and arrays, and allowing pointer arithmetic. The consequences are absolutely awful with regard to compilers being able to optimize, and it is pretty much the primary reason that Fortran is still quite in use for numerical work.
I agree. It's one of those things that probably sounded like a good idea at the time. The consequences were not foreseen. All languages have a few of these (C++ has the infamous use of < > for template arguments).
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