From: jarrodhroberson@yahoo.com (Y2KYZFR1)
Subject: Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language
Date: 7 Feb 2004 12:33:04 -0800
Date: 2004-02-07T12:33:04-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c718a6cf.0402071233.6d4bd847@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bvvjqj$4fb$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi
Joona I Palaste <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote in message news:<bvvjqj$4fb$1@oravannahka.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.
you have obviously never even seen a Python program, since it does not
use any punction marks. It ( and Lua ) are about as close to
executable pseudo-code as you can get. Python ( and Lua ) is
"comprehendable" by anyone that can read english for the most part. C
and C++ are not.
Python enforces rules about formatting even, so everyones Python code
HAS to conform to the same formatting rules, thus contributing to even
more "readibility"
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-05 22:13 Announcing new scripting/prototyping language Dave Allison
2004-02-05 22:19 ` Christopher Benson-Manica
2004-02-05 22:56 ` Larry Hazel
2004-02-05 23:40 ` Victor Bazarov
2004-02-06 15:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-02-06 15:49 ` Victor Bazarov
2004-02-06 16:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-02-06 16:06 ` Victor Bazarov
2004-03-04 16:40 ` Richard Riehle
2004-02-05 23:53 ` Richard Heathfield
2004-02-06 8:38 ` Joona I Palaste
2004-02-06 14:49 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-02-06 15:23 ` Martijn Lievaart
2004-02-06 19:01 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-02-06 19:02 ` Jeff Schwab
2004-02-06 21:25 ` Martijn Lievaart
2004-02-07 14:43 ` Martin Krischik
2004-02-06 18:29 ` Dan Pop
2004-02-06 19:17 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-02-07 20:33 ` Y2KYZFR1 [this message]
2004-02-07 20:42 ` Joona I Palaste
2004-02-08 4:54 ` Les Cargill
2004-02-09 18:11 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-02-06 2:09 ` Les Cargill
2004-02-06 8:26 ` Preben Randhol
2004-02-06 16:23 ` Les Cargill
2004-02-06 18:15 ` Preben Randhol
2004-02-06 17:43 ` Martin Krischik
2004-03-04 16:58 ` Richard Riehle
2004-03-04 17:45 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-02-06 17:39 ` Martin Krischik
2004-02-06 1:00 ` Unforgiven
2004-02-06 3:02 ` Jack Klein
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