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the_why_of_y on Dec 29, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust is mostly safety

> ANSI Common LISP lives up to that standard.

There is only one version of the ANSI Common Lisp standard, so it is trivially compatible with itself.

> C's versioning lives up to that standard.

Then how do you explain this astonishing work of art?

https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2016/07/code-behaving-differen...

Annatar on Dec 30, 2016 [–]

Easy: you tell the compiler which version of C you're compiling, and it churns right through it without a peep. Versioned formats, cornerstone of every good engineering implementation.

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