@prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
Post #2079678
2026-05-06 12:19 UTC
In case you don’t know, C is the successor to B (which used imperial variables). There was a planned successor to C called D, which would use all unitless quantities, like they do in Fermi approximations, but it turns out those aren’t very good. That’s why we have C++ (which supports metric and imperial) instead.
Replies (3)
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@Vittelius@feddit.org 2026-05-06 12:43
What do you mean “planned successor”? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)
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@thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 15:45
What do you mean by “imperial” variables I’ve never heard of this
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@404@lemmy.zip 2026-05-06 18:53
What? Really? I though that’s what the strong C metric/imperial (strcmp) function was for