C is awesome. I love to feel like a pr0 h4xx0rz and ignore all common sense modern programming language features in favor of the risky simple programming. Just like driving without a seatbelt makes me a better driver, programming with a 50-year-old type system makes me a better programmer! I'm such an interesting person...
Any language as based as C?
Anthony Kelly
Justin Wood
>no it doesn't. both compile times and runtime are slow due to core design limitations.
>even things written with standard library have poor portability
>using the c runtime, or linking against the standard library ever
Bentley Young
please explain further.
I dont like it because it "ignores all common sense modern programming language features" but because I can do stuff other languages wont let me do. Its also not really comparable to driving without seatbelt. Only if removing the seatbelt gave significant speed advantages.
Also, what is wrong with the type system? a good programmer should know all variable types at compile time, and if you really need variable types, you can cast anything to anything.
Adrian King
If you think C is powerful, you don't know what power means.
Examples of powerful languages: Lisps (I prefer Scheme), Haskell
Leo Mitchell
>Just like driving without a seatbelt makes me a better driver
Not if your seatbelt halves your car's gas mileage, or makes it drive at 1/10th of its potential speed, or suddenly stops for a few miliseconds while it picks garbage off the ground for no reason whatsoever.
Ryan Cooper
ASM > C
Alexander Allen
Agreed, which is why you should check the output of your compiler to make sure it's not doing anything stupid.
Ryan Brown
>I can do stuff other languages wont let me do.
Such as?
Jacob Morgan
>(((lisp)))
Caleb Taylor
>It doesnt mangle function names like C++ does.
It does