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How is the choice of C/C++ a decision in favor of simplicity?
by richcollins 17y ago
How is the choice of C/C++ a decision in favor of simplicity?
- SwellJoe 17y agoHe references Richard Gabriel's "Worse Is Better", which compares the simplicity of implementation model (C/C++) with the simplicity/correctness of interface model (Lisp). C/C++ are "simple", ya know, kinda like Cletus from the Simpsons. One could also generally argue that C is simple to use, as well. K&R is a tiny book, and it covers most of what you need to know to read C, and a good bit of what you need to know to write it (some of the ancillary tools, like cpp, make, libraries, etc. complexify things a bit, though). C++, on the other hand, is a huge pile of interwoven concepts and is extremely complex, so I don't think it's polite to combine them in to C/C++, but I don't get to make that call.