Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language

[Joona I Palaste <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi>]

Richard Heathfield <dontmail@address.co.uk.invalid> scribbled the following
on comp.lang.c:
> Larry Hazel wrote:
>> Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:
>>> 
>>> When I need a language that's easy to use and readable, I turn
>>> directly to C.  Don't let me stop you, though.
>> 
>> C?  Easy to read?  You have got to be kidding.

> Compared to the other languages in this crosspost? Damn right it's easy to 
> read! :-)

> I mean yes, okay, I know what you mean. Any sufficiently advanced IOCCC 
> entry is indistinguishable from line noise. But not /all/ C programs are 
> IOCCC entries!

I find C harder to read than Java, and easier to read than C++. I
don't know about Ada, as I've never seen it. But C and C++ are a
breeze compared to the likes of Perl, Python and Lisp. They look like
C looked while I was still a BASIC programmer: a random jumble of
punctuation marks.

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