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>>Bad C code is bad C code. There's equally bad JavaScript, Ruby, and Python code too; none of those languages have particularly simple semantics. The problem
by enraged_camel 10y ago
>>Bad C code is bad C code. There's equally bad JavaScript, Ruby, and Python code too; none of those languages have particularly simple semantics.
The problem is that C is in everything. OK, not literally, but you know what I mean.
Bad JavaScript is easy to avoid. You just navigate to another website. Bad C though, not so much. Often times it's in the kernel or somewhere deep like that.
- pjmlp 10y agoAs a side effect of UNIX adoption in the industry. Like it happened with the browser and JavaScript, C got adopted thanks to UNIX. Before UNIX's adoption, many of us had a pleasant coding life using Turbo/Quick/Apple Pascal, Modula-2, Basic compilers.
- noir_lord 10y agoNo idea why you got so badly downvoted, your comment is pretty much spot on, bad C is hard to avoid.
- enraged_camel 10y agoI don't know either. It happens sometimes. I think it's just the bandwagon effect, and depends on the initial votes and their timing.
- noir_lord 10y agoI think that is the case, people see a faded grey and just hit down.