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> In my experience with language design, a little bit of syntactic sugar can have transformative results. I agree 100%. This also reminds me of this article:

by ratww 6y ago

> In my experience with language design, a little bit of syntactic sugar can have transformative results. I agree 100%. This also reminds me of this article: https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/03/its-not-what-programming-languages-do.html https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/03/its-not-what-program... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22696229 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22696229

elgfare 6y ago
I totally agree that C shepherds you into pointers. I also think C shepherds you into writing everything from scratch. Most of all I think it's a self-perpetuating cycle of "there's no system for X (e.g. sized arrays, packaging system, classes) so everyone makes their own, and now all other code feels slightly incompatible with all other code."