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When it comes to it, people still use C where it matters. It has it's bare metal beauty, like a sharp knife, unless you know what're doing, you're more likely
by xchaotic 10y ago
When it comes to it, people still use C where it matters.
It has it's bare metal beauty, like a sharp knife, unless you know what're doing, you're more likely to cut yourself than do anything useful.
- miguelrochefort 10y agoI said that I did not care about performance. Nobody would pick C if computers could execute code instantly.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoDisagree. If you need to talk to hardware that is mapped to memory addresses, C is a probably the most natural choice. (Granted, most people don't need to do that these days...)
- miguelrochefort 10y agoI don't think you read the question.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoI read the question. It's fine that you don't care about performance. But your dogmatic statement in response to xchaotic was factually wrong, and I responded to say that.