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Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)



Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> writes:
> * Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>, 2014-04-15, 11:24:

>> we need to go further. We need a programming language (with at least two
>> compiler implementations), which I will call Ͻ, that looks like C so
>> much that *every* C program¹ is also a valid Ͻ program, and *every* Ͻ
>> program that does not make use of the additional guarantees (i.e. no C
>> UB) is also a valid C program.
> […]
>>find a non-sucking name that is ISO 646 IRV,

> Let's call it Cava.

    The most important thing in the programming language is the name.  A
    language will not succeed without a good name.  I have recently
    invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable
    language.
                                                -- Donald Knuth

Maybe if we asked nicely we could use his.  :)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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