diff --git a/articles/c.md b/articles/c.md index c341a28..d545fb9 100644 --- a/articles/c.md +++ b/articles/c.md @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ In 1979 C was defiled by Bjarne Stroustrup and turned into the abomination nowad In 1989 the first standardized version of C was released, C89 also known as *ANSI C*, a standard that remains relevant today, being considered as a baseline for maximum portable C code. -The next major (and last relatively good version) version, C99 was released in the year 2000. Notably this standard is the first one +The next major (and last good version) version, C99 was released in the year 2000. Notably this standard is the first one that formally allowed the declaration of a variable in any place of a block, although most compilers supported it already as an extension. Also adds C++ style `//` comments, the `stdint.h` (fixed integer types) header and a boolean type. @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ main(void) ``` #### Compiling -On Unix systems, `cc` is symlinked to the "default" C compiler, usually GCC. +On Unix systems, `cc` is symlinked to the "default" C compiler, usually GCC in Linux and Clang in the BSDs. ``` cc -o hello hello.c ```