3 Dec
2014
3 Dec
'14
6:09 a.m.
On 03/12/14 8:12 AM, Mouse wrote:
Today's C doesn't resemble Kernighan & Ritchie's C all that much,
either.
The only important difference that comes to mind is prototype checking,
which as far as static safety goes, is very weak tea.
Now that I use Linux pretty exclusively, I have
grudgingly accepted
C.
You can give it up any time. There are dozens of far better
languages that have cropped up in the 40 years since C was invented
for a particular environment (that doesn't resemble anything much we
do today).
There are no "better" languages, because "better" is ill-defined.
There are better languages for this task in this environment or that
task in that environment, for various tasks and environments, but there
are still tasks and environments for which C wins.
That doesn't mean people should not stop using it where it doesn't win.
The fetishisation of C is a massive cultural problem with massive
tangible costs.
--Toby
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