the one and only objection to C

[Tim Maroney]

Look, if you absolutely have to match an externally-imposed structure
format, then write a conversion routine between the C structure and the
external structure (considering it as an array of chars).  In virtually
every such case, the C structure can be on the stack, that is, in an "auto"
variable, so you don't have dynamic storage management overhead.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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"Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are
but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains."
Liber AL, II:9.