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The thinking behind C11


By John Benito


 John Benito
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August 27, 2012 —  (Page 4 of 4)
Regarding our relationship with C++, the committee is content to let C++ be the "big'' and ambitious language. While some features of C++ may well be embraced, it is not the committee's intention that C becomes C++; however, in areas such as the memory model, C will do whatever it takes to be compatible with C++.

11. Maintain conceptual simplicity. The committee prefers an economy of concepts that do the job. Members should identify the issues and prescribe the minimal amount of machinery that will solve them. The committee recognizes the importance of being able to describe and teach new concepts in a straightforward and concise manner.

Additional observations were added after the 2007 meeting:

12. “Trust the programmer,” as a goal, is outdated with respect to the security and safety programming communities. While it should not be totally disregarded as a facet of the spirit of C, the C11 version of the C standard should take into account that programmers need the ability to check their work.

13. Unlike for C99, the consensus at the London meeting was that there should be no invention, without exception. Only those features that have a history and are in common use by a commercial implementation should be considered. Also there must be care to standardize these features in a way that would make the standard and the commercial implementation compatible.

14. Migration of an existing codebase is an issue. The ability to mix and match C89-, C99- and C11-based code is a feature that should be considered for each proposal.


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