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kenOfYugen on Jan 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to C in 2016

  > Standard c99

If you have to write C, why not go with ANSI C/C89 for compatibility/portability reasons?

_kst_ on Jan 8, 2016 [–]

Because the 1999 and 2011 standards added some useful features. Unfortunately, there are still some compilers that don't support C99.

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