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Le Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:26:02 +0200, Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com> a =
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=C3=A9crit:

> 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 =
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portable assembly language). Talking about C, one should always have two=
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very distinct cases in mind: hand=E2=80=91written C and software generat=
ed C, and  =

not confuse both.


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=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
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[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
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