From: Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com   
      
   Michael S  writes:   
   > On Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:56:56 -0700   
   > Keith Thompson  wrote:   
   >> Michael S  writes:   
   >> > On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:20:45 -0700   
   >> > Keith Thompson  wrote:   
   >> [...]   
   >> >> Free software still has to be usable.  cdecl is usable for most of   
   >> >> us.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> [...]   
   >> >>   
   >> >   
   >> > I'd say that it is not sufficiently usable for most of us to   
   >> > actually use it.   
   >>   
   >> Why do you say that?   
   >   
   > I would guess that less than 1 per cent of C programmers ever used it   
   > and less than 5% of those who used it once continued to use it   
   > regularly.   
   > All numbers pulled out of thin air...   
      
   So it's about usefulness, not usability.  You're not saying that   
   it works incorrectly or that it's difficult to use (which would be   
   usability issues), but that the job it performs is not useful for   
   most C programmers.   
      
   (One data point: I use it occasionally.)   
      
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