getting tired of the underhanded shilling for c and procedural style programming. the people doing this still pretend they are the underdogs but their point of view is over saturated.
I don't know why you got that feeling, TFA says this:
> Some view C as a language so simple and raw that you’ll spend all your time working around the language’s lack of built in data structures, and fixing pointer bugs. The truth is that C’s simplicity is a strength. It compiles quickly. Its syntax doesn’t hide complex operations. It’s simple enough that I don’t have to constantly look things up. And I can easily compile it to both native and web assembly. While C has its share of quirks, I avoid them by habits developed over 22 years of use.
Which is nothing unreasonable.
I code mostly in a Lisp dialect but I don't take offense at, say, the Linux kernel being mostly C.
i am not assessing the truthfulness, the reasonableness, the correctness, or the veracity of the claims made in the article in any way. i simply do not care because the claims are purely subjective, untestable, unmeasurable. it is an opinion piece and one that is dulled out ad nauseam in the programming world today. enough to be annoying now. one opinion for another.
TacticalCoder|1 year ago
> Some view C as a language so simple and raw that you’ll spend all your time working around the language’s lack of built in data structures, and fixing pointer bugs. The truth is that C’s simplicity is a strength. It compiles quickly. Its syntax doesn’t hide complex operations. It’s simple enough that I don’t have to constantly look things up. And I can easily compile it to both native and web assembly. While C has its share of quirks, I avoid them by habits developed over 22 years of use.
Which is nothing unreasonable.
I code mostly in a Lisp dialect but I don't take offense at, say, the Linux kernel being mostly C.
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