OT: Language for the ages

[Gordon JC Pearce]

Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Eric J Korpela wrote:
> 
>>>"rules"???????
>>>Who's rules? K&R very strenuously avoids defining the sizes.
>>
>>The ISO's rules, of course. The ISO standard is 16 years old now.
> 
> 
> Oh.  OK.  The "NEW" version of C     (v K&R)
> 
> 
> Actually, I AGREE with those size recommendations.
> 
> I LIKE having 8 bit chars, 16 bit ints, 32 bit longs;
> but there are some bizarre vintage implementations out there,
> and on the old stuff, you can not count on a specific size.

But only because the hardware you're used to using C on suits these sizes.

Gordon.