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[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Saturday, 23 May 2020 at 02:37:23 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

>
> Restrict working requires great care on the part of the 
> programmer to not make a mistake with it, as it is unchecked by 
> the compiler. Which means the vast majority of users will just 
> introduce subtle bugs when they try it. Which means no sane 
> programmer will use it.
>

Dennis Ritchie wrote a paper on why 'noalias' precursor to 
'restrict' was an 'abomination'.

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/dmr-on-noalias.html

> VLA relies far too much on the vagaries of the stack 
> implementation. Hence it's unportable and unreliable.
>
> C missed some obviously great ideas. One is nested functions, 
> which fit right in with C's semantics. The other is the fix for:
>
> https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html

I do not think it was a mistake at all. Treating pointers and 
arrays uniformly is one of the great innovations in C.

https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html

I for one am glad that C is stable and not being constantly 
tweaked. In part this is why it is so successful.