XPost: alt.folklore.computers
From: tnp@invalid.invalid

On 06/01/2026 12:36, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2026-01-05 19:09, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 05/01/2026 17:48, rbowman wrote:
>>> The C changes over the years like being able to declare variables where
>>> they are first used and single line comments were something I greeted
>>> with
>>> "Hell yeah!" rather than "What CS PhD dreamed this crap up?"
>>
>> Spot on.
>>
>> C is enough to do the job and simple to learn. Why complicate shit?
>>
>
> My C teacher said it was a mistake to use C as an all purpose language,
> like for userland applications. Using C is the cause of many bugs that a
> proper language would catch.
>
> That was around 1991.
>
> He knew.

How to make mistakes, but not to program defensively

You don't treat a chainsaw like a palette knife for cake icing.


>He participated in some study tasked by the Canadian government
> to study C compilers, but he could not talk about what they wrote.
>

Mostly bollocks then...

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H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

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