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> My problem is that C was elevated to a role of prestige and power, its reign so absolute and eternal that it has completely distorted the way we speak to each
by smitty1e 5y ago
> My problem is that C was elevated to a role of prestige and power, its reign so absolute and eternal that it has completely distorted the way we speak to each other.
I submit that this Tower of Babel truth is older than C and a reflection of the humanity that created the tool, not the tool itself.
Minimize the entropy and be at peace with existential imperfection, say I.
- Koshkin 5y agoFunny you should mention entropy. C is indeed a high-entropy programming language, and one indeed should prefer a language with fewer ways of doing or expressing the same thing.