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C is beautiful if you're standing on a motherboard staring up at it. If you think mostly in terms of how hardware works, C is a clean, powerful language. "T
by Goladus 19y ago
C is beautiful if you're standing on a motherboard staring up at it. If you think mostly in terms of how hardware works, C is a clean, powerful language.
"The language isn't truly high-level" isn't the whole argument; which would indeed be a straw man. That's the main part that's tied to the "most C++ programmers suck" argument, though. He thinks the "pseudo high-levelness" of C++ encourages sloppy programming.
Also there's another argument in there: Object-Orientation is overrated and often causes as many problems as it solves.
- timr 19y agoMost programmers suck in every language. If Linus' experience with C developers is that they are better than C++ developers, it's probably because he is familiar with the qualities of good C developers.
- Goladus 19y agoHere's the response from the thread: LT> "You can write bad code in any language. However, some languages, and especially some mental baggages that go with them are bad."