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I DO TOO! Warts and all, the simplicity is really refreshing, especially in an age of: "Make sure you have homebrew installed and then `curl http://goodluckb

I DO TOO! Warts and all, the simplicity is really refreshing, especially in an age of: "Make sure you have homebrew installed and then `curl http://goodluckbro.io/doomed | sh` then go read the Medium blog post to write your first hello world" And don't get me wrong, I love and use whatever-shiny-lang-v2 too, I just really like the simplicity of C (and yes I acknowledge that comes with the ambiguity and undefined behavior too).

MadWombat 7y ago
> Make sure you have homebrew installed and then `curl http://goodluckbro.io/doomed http://goodluckbro.io/doomed | sh` So... what is the equivalent of doing this in C? * install C compiler (no, there is no install script, go google and install yourself and yes, the process is different on different platforms) * read a blog post (possibly on medium) and write hello.c * read another blog post to figure out compiler flags * ./a.out A bit less convenient, but not that different
- sigjuice 7y ago
  On a new Mac, just type cc and it will install the command line developer tools, which includes clang.
  - MadWombat 7y ago
    What if it is an older mac? What if it is a Windows machine? What if it is an Ubuntu machine? Fedora machine? Arch Linux? FreeBSD? OpenBSD?
augustk 7y ago
For those who appreciate radical simplicity I can recommend the Oberon programming language. As opposed to C it is a real high-level language whose language specification contains no reference to any computing mechanism: https://www.miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html https://www.miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html