The Cscript Style Guide – CScript is the standard C

(github.com)

24 points | by domenukk 2 days ago ago

11 comments

  • eqvinox a day ago

    Very high quality shitposting. Approved.

  • gschizas a day ago

    Given that CScript is the name of the "Console Based Script Host" for Windows, that can run JScript (Microsoft's old variant of JavaScript) and VBScript, and supposedly other pluggable scripting languages (I've never seen one in the wild), calling this "Cscript" is not a good idea.

    • bheadmaster a day ago

      It's a joke language, I doubt it will cause any significant ambiguity ever.

  • krylon a day ago

    > 0[str] is valid and asserts dominance.

    At this point I came dangerously close to spewing water all over my keyboard. :D

  • leumassuehtam 2 days ago

    It looks like the B programming language.

  • irishcoffee 2 days ago

    This is interesting, but I wouldn't say it is valid C. main() doesn't know about greet(auto s) and wouldn't be able to call it in valid C89, right?

    • kevin_thibedeau 2 days ago

      It's valid K&R since everything defaults to int. The linker will match the symbols sans prototype. That wasn't obsoleted until C23.

    • oguz-ismail2 2 days ago

      It is valid C89. greet is automatically declared as

          int greet();
      
      at call site.
  • TZubiri a day ago

    To compile CScript to C:

    apt install gcc-dev

    cat hello.cs > hello.c

    gcc hello.c

    • eqvinox a day ago

      Nope… you need to follow the instructions:

        gcc -std=gnu89 -m32 -fno-builtin
      
      because GCC defaults to ISO C23 these days, and that will not work, and neither will anything where int and a pointer aren't the same size :)
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