OTish; Laptops

[Bod]

Plus the after sales service at CCL is far superior than PC World who are useless with after sales service. Oh well, each to their own I suppose.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Good grief. You don't understand anything about computer hardware do you?

If you are going to use a register to contain a value that might be a memory content or a memory address you are screwed from the start irrespective of the length of either or both.

If you are going to allow registers that corresponding to memory addresses to be incremented. decremented or have arbitrary offsets addressed to them, so you can index tables, you already have te hardware potential for malfeasance.

If you are going to use the stack to contain data as well as return addresses, you al;ready have the potential for using data to alter program flow.

This is all in the architecture of the hardware, not in the language. And if you remove it from the hardware then you have a very inefficient computer.

[The Medway Handyman]

But paid extra for the software, anti virus, mouse, bag etc.

[Bod]

If you're happy with your selection, that's all that matters. Enjoy

[Vir Campestris]

s/C/poor programmers/

Some of us have always known better. (But then the Dec10 I first used for assembler had 18-bit addresses and 36-bit integers)

Andy

[The Natural Philosopher]

yerrs. The world is full of people clamouring for someone else to protect them from the consequences of their own indiscipline and idiocy isn't it?

C is like a chainsaw. Respect it.

[dennis]

Its also portable, it will compile but may well do something different portable.

[Vir Campestris]

It _can_ be portable. But it takes care.

Even I tend to assume char will be 8 bits.

Andy