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> I think this view disrespects history a little. I love C, but I'm hard pressed to think of any language other than assembly which is more willing to get out
by civility 7y ago
> I think this view disrespects history a little.
I love C, but I'm hard pressed to think of any language other than assembly which is more willing to get out your way if you so much as nudge in an undisciplined direction. C certainly does not impose much discipline on programmers, but it allows them to bring some if they walk the line.
> Okay the language still has goto, hopefully we can agree to not make a big deal out of that.
> It's obviously easy to blow all sorts of holes in C's type system
Yes, I'm willing to politely ignore evidence which refutes your point. I mean you were kind enough to make my case for me. :-)
> I'd ask you to try teaching C to a room full of compsci students who have been raised on something like Python.
Dynamic vs static typing seems orthogonal to what we're talking about here, but maybe I'd have to think about that more. Python just waits to catch your type errors until runtime. Comparing that to JavaScript in a browser which silently ignores your errors (or happily performs crazy type conversions), Python seems disciplined in comparison.