[OT] Dennis Ritchie's proposal for slices in C

[Walter Bright]

On 12/8/2024 2:48 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
> It's honestly kind of incredible that the C committee has been sitting on this 
> for more than 30 years. What the heck were they thinking?

It is amazing indeed, considering all the useless complexity they've added to C, 
like normalized Unicode identifiers.

Of course, C++ refuses to fix it as well.