C, STL, primitive languages that live on and on ... Re: Does anyone here know Siemens STL?

[Charles Dickman]

There are a lot of smart people here with wide ranging experiences, so
I like to ask questions from time to time that get more to philosophy.
So "If C is so evil why is it so successful" was one of those
questions.

The answer I see is that it is the path of least resistance to the
most successful outcome in the time horizon of the effort.

Or, it gets the job done.

Personally, I am stuck in the machine control world where things like
symbolic names and type checking are sometimes non-existant. And I
wonder why.

SIL-3 and PLe with stone knives and bearskins.

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 04/11/2017 07:03 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk wrote:
>> The Balkanized nature of programming is interesting.

> You might find more fertile ground plowing the plctalk.net forum when
> your questions relate to the STL/SCL/FBD/LAD/CSF area.

I am familiar with STL (and some of the others). My question was not
for help. I was trying to present a contrast between the nit-picking
the list was doing about C and that fact that a huge amount of mission
critical programming is done in languages that are essentially machine
code.

It was a ham fisted attempt. Don't post after too many high ABV IPA's.

> FWIW, "STL"  in Siemens-talk is an acronym for "Statement List".  Why it
> isn't "SL" is anyone's guess.

Probably for the same reason that PZD is process data.

> --Chuck

-chuck