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Unread 09-03-2004, 01:05
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Re: Why I hate c

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Originally Posted by Chris Hibner
Also: Has everyone been taking advantage of signed math? I sure hope so. It is probably the biggest advantage of the new C compiler vs. the old pBASIC controller.
Yeah, signed math is such an incredible improvement. Not to mention the increased data memory! I used to never use 2 byte variables in PBASIC, now I use ints all the time (well, when necessary... which is quite often).

I like C because it let's you do so much, though I agree the single = sign in if statements should probably throw a warning. But I've used it so much now I can usually trace errors like that fairly quickly (or avoid them altogether).