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Your comments on this thread up to this point sound like a religious fanatic. I greatly enjoyed reading. Goes to show why it’s called “The C Religion”.
by comfypotato 3y ago
Your comments on this thread up to this point sound like a religious fanatic.
I greatly enjoyed reading.
Goes to show why it’s called “The C Religion”.
- quelsolaar 3y agoI think, most designers of languages want abstractions, convenience, and clevernes. So for people who don't want that we have to cling on to C since there aren't other options ;-)
- rewmie 3y ago> I think, most designers of languages want abstractions, convenience, and clevernes. You get that in C as well in the form of libraries and frameworks. Today you saw a post in HN on how to do object oriented programming with C. Some time ago people shared C frameworks to enforce memory safety. There are generic data structures libraries for C as well. I think your jab on how C programmers don't want abstractions, convenience, or cleverness is a weak strawman. It's obviously not it. What I think C programmers value is expressiveness and speed, and avoid bloat and overall inefficiencies, and C detractors don't want to address that because it forces them to face the real world tradeoffs which expose the shortcomings of their personal choices. There's a pervasive fear of missing out on the latest and greatest, and an irrational need to jump onto bandwagons, and C is extreme opposite of it. And yet it still outperforms anything that came after.