From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Language ranking
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 01:21:32 +0200
Date: 2014-04-05T01:21:32+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.xdte56m0ule2fv@cardamome> (raw)
In-Reply-To: tYf%u.10886$YO.2164@fx03.iad
Le Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:26:02 +0200, Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com> a
écrit:
> On 03-Apr-14 08:05, Robert A Duff wrote:
>> Which application area benefits from an
>> error-prone language?
>
> Operating Systems, general applications?
> (Anything that C or C++ is commonly used for in "the industry".)
C is special case though, as it's often used as a target language (or a
portable assembly language). Talking about C, one should always have two
very distinct cases in mind: hand‑written C and software generated C, and
not confuse both.
--
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-02 7:38 Language ranking Simon Wright
2014-04-02 20:25 ` Simon Clubley
2014-04-03 15:05 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-03 16:26 ` Shark8
2014-04-03 23:12 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-03 23:24 ` Shark8
2014-04-04 13:43 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-04 21:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-04 22:21 ` Shark8
2014-04-04 23:21 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2014-04-05 0:03 ` Shark8
2014-04-05 0:40 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-03 17:13 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-04-03 23:14 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-04 23:12 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-03 21:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-04 22:59 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-03 21:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-03 23:21 ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-04 0:43 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-04-04 1:19 ` Shark8
2014-04-04 8:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-04-04 16:42 ` Shark8
2014-04-05 7:41 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-04-05 9:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-04-05 9:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-04-04 3:44 ` tmoran
2014-04-04 21:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-05 2:16 ` tmoran
2014-04-04 23:17 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-04 3:44 ` tmoran
2014-04-04 22:37 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-04 22:57 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-04-04 23:25 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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