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> One of the niceties of C is that I can get anything done pretty damn quickly, without anything getting in my way. not saying you're necessarily wrong (c is d
by leetcrew 6y ago
> One of the niceties of C is that I can get anything done pretty damn quickly, without anything getting in my way.
not saying you're necessarily wrong (c is definitely simpler than rust), but I think most people would write a similar comment for whatever language they feel most comfortable with. I write c++ most days. even though it's the most verbose and complicated language I've ever used, I can still probably get stuff done way faster than in another language I happen to pick up.
if I'm just throwing something together really fast, I do mostly use the old school C functions though. scanf is way nicer than streams.
- peterwwillis 6y agoAgreed - in that I write it in Perl if I need it to just work right now. Perl is still, to me, the most useful programming language for completing a generic program in the smallest amount of time. (Part of that is due to CPAN, and part to the gazillion built-in features of Perl 5)
- jes 6y agoI agree. I’m an older programmer (almost 61) and I’ve been using Perl for a long time - maybe 20 or 25 years. I reach for it when a job feels like a bit too much for a bash (1) script. I don’t go out of my way to teach or suggest Perl to my younger colleagues. I don’t know why that is. They don’t usually reach for Python, which I think would probably be their best choice. Maybe I’m just a curmudgeon ... and by the way, can you please stay off my lawn? :)