Variable-length arrays

Tom MacDonald uunet!fig.cray.com!tam
Thu Dec 19 10:18:37 PST 1991


>>>>>> Peter S. Shenkin
>     I agree.  Certainly the whole point is to make life easier for the 
>     programmer, isn't it?

>>>>>> Richard Stallman
> You sure feel free to spend my time, don't you?

I'm much more sensitive to the needs of customers.  I want the feature to
feel comfortable and appeal to my Fortran user base.  If it feels kludging
to the compiler developer but not to the C programmer then my vote goes
to the end user - always.

Tom MacDonald
tamacray.com
uunet!cray!tam



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