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Obviously you should be familiar with C. This entire conversation, however, is misguided by comparing it to Java or to fancy high-level languages. It's apples a
by catechin 18y ago
Obviously you should be familiar with C. This entire conversation, however, is misguided by comparing it to Java or to fancy high-level languages. It's apples and oranges.
Of all of those, only C/C++ offers extremely high performance as its key feature. Being primarily a shorthand for assembly, C occupies a permanent place as the systems and performance language of choice and will remain there. If your application demands performance, use it. If not, then don't.
- seano 18y agoSure, but first write the application in a higher level language and then, if required, you can re-write the bottleneck in C. Otherwise what you are doing amounts to premature optimisation.
- rw 18y agoOtherwise what you are doing amounts to premature optimisation. That's a good insight - what language you use is also a form of optimization.