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After having a short look on the compilation, it shows one thing very accurately IMHO: C syntax is very error prone. To sad, that so many new programming langu

After having a short look on the compilation, it shows one thing very accurately IMHO: C syntax is very error prone. To sad, that so many new programming languages chose to use exactly this syntax that is so error prone. C was a very good programming language and the short syntax might have some appeal -- but for learning programming, this syntax is not the best option, as long as you don't use it as type of intellectual test to find the best computer-people ...

nulbyte 10y ago
English is also error-prone, as you have demonstrated—perhaps unwittingly—but we still use it around the world. I would argue that this fact makes C syntax a particularly good choice for one learning to program: Computers don't think like humans, unless we program them to think like humans.
- riwsky 10y ago
  Though it is in this case worth noting that there is enough redundancy in English that you can both a) tell that "to bad" is wrong and b) know they meant "too bad", which isn't always the case for =/==
  - syphilis2 10y ago
    Of course the desired phrase was "So sad". Or was it "Too sad"?
adwf 10y ago
I was thinking much the same. 90% of these errors don't even exist in some other languages.