Skip to content

Digital Mars company blog

Conflating pointers with arrays: C's biggest mistake? (2009)

digitalmars.com

Read on digitalmars.com → Discuss on HN (254) Archived copy

Points: 260
HN comments: 254
Submissions: 1
Cited by: 0 commenters

Programming Languages 2018

On Hacker News

Submitted	Title on HN	Points	Comments
Jul 22, 2018	Conflating pointers with arrays: C's biggest mistake? (2009) by etrevino	260	254

More from Digital Mars

All 4 posts →

Obvious things C should do

2025257 points301 commentscited by 3Programming Languages details

The naked truth about writing a programming language (2014)

2020250 points204 comments Programming Languages details

C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)

2020232 points470 commentscited by 20Programming Languages details

Related posts from the same era

Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming

Brent Yorgey20182,074 points474 comments details

Grumpy: Go running Python

Google Open Source Blog20171,411 points451 commentscited by 4 details

Async-await on stable Rust

Rust Blog20191,102 points380 comments details

Julia 1.0

Julia Blog2018915 points434 comments details

PHP in 2019

Brent Roose2019908 points473 comments details

Go is Google's language, not ours

Chris Siebenmann2019885 points659 commentscited by 4 details