From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: kevin@kombat.acadiau.ca (Kevin Swan) Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/11/18 Message-ID: <34720f1c.0@131.162.2.91>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 290549933 References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <34466EB4.3381@dynamite.com.au> <6275dt$agm$3@news.on> <344BCED0.2D51@dynamite.com.au> <62tpap$7gh$1@darla.visi.com> <3470EF6E.F74@lysator.liu.se> Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ X-Complaints-To: news@hub.org X-Trace: hub.org 879890279 29808 131.162.2.91 (18 Nov 1997 21:57:59 GMT) Organization: Hub.Org Public Access Unix Server Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ingemar Ragnemalm (ingemar@lysator.liu.se) wrote: : There are plenty of people who use C since it is "cool", but just can't : say what is so cool with it. It is cool because Mom can't understand it. : No, they won't say that. You can identify that kind of people by the : lack of comments in the code. They *want* it that way - and they are : many! Huh? What are you talking about? Do you *really* think that's it? I use C, and I don't mind telling you why. It has nothing to do with how easy or hard it is, it has to do with how fast it is. For small to medium sized programs, development time is fairly quick. In terms of execution speed, it simply doesn't get any faster than compiled C code. It puts you just above the assembly level, even permitting you to very easily work in assembly, if you want to optimize a tight little loop. I try extra hard to make my C code EASY to read. I comment generously. I find the syntax simple and intuitive, except when you get into pointers to pointers to pointers to .... and even then, its logical. Why would people *want* a language that was difficult to work in? That's called "assembly." If you think C is so difficult, why the they choose to model Java's syntax after C? After all, Java was intended to be one of the easiest possible languages to learn, with a very shallow learning curve, and has been quite successful at it. I can't even venture a guess at why you made the comments you did. It almost sounds like you're mad, or resentful at C programmers, but I can't imagine why. Perhaps you're jealous of something, or got a low mark in your C course, and are taking it out on the language. At any rate, I suggest you give it a second look. Its easy to learn, very fast, and an industry standard. Kev. C, Java, and Smalltalk programmer. -- Kevin Swan BCSH My university broke my email. If you want to email me, please send it to 013639s@dragon.acadiau.ca Acadia University How's my posting? Call 1-800-DEV-NULL ** Fatal Error [1]: 'Win95' virus detected on /dev/hda1; Formatting ...