Real improvements in compilers are relatively cheap compared to what is spent on a new release of a complete C implementation.
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I also hope that C implementation vendors will spend a slightly larger fraction of their budgets on improving the quality and performance of their compilers rather than concentrating too heavily on novelties.Bjarne Stroustrup
Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
Bjarne Stroustrup
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot C makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
Bjarne Stroustrup
My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.
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Consequently, a general-purpose programming language should support a variety of ways of thinking and a variety of programming styles.
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The most novel and interesting part of the standard library is the general and extensible framework for containers and algorithms.
Bjarne Stroustrup
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