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C... I have fondness on the time when HP was American... and Motorola... and calculators were meant to last... mechanical keyboards... when things were simple.

by xlayn 10y ago

C... I have fondness on the time when HP was American... and Motorola... and calculators were meant to last... mechanical keyboards... when things were simple... I tell people that the keyboard... the original mechanical one, just God knows how much money took to be designed... how many thousand hours of trial and error it took to be designed... just to get to hp and their new layouts... (don't make me talk about new thinkpads). Dennis Ritchie was the IBM of programming languages... when fad after fad of JS framework pass, C stands...

hugozap 10y ago
>when fad after fad of JS framework pass, C stands Oranges vs apples
nine_k 10y ago
Unfortunately I honestly dislike C. It is about as expressive as a "portable assembly language" can be expected to be, it has pretty weird syntax [1], it has neither hygienic macros nor a module system, using "include files" instead. And a bunch of undefined behaviors on top of that. Well, it was the unifying language despite all these shortcomings, because Unix. This is very much like JS is an ugly unifying language of sorts today, because the browser. I very much hope that maybe something like Rust will take the place of the close-to-metal portable language. C made some sense when you had a 16-bit CPU @ 10 MHz and 128 KB of RAM for a development machine, and ed on a teletype as the IDE. Now we can do better. [1]: http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html