Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_Naughty_C=E2=99=AF?= Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 13:36:18 +0100 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <27cv2mx5fl.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <10j9a1l$1toj$1@gal.iecc.com> <10j9vvr$23cp$2@gal.iecc.com> <10jb0is$172cb$2@dont-email.me> <679q2mx7o4.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10jduat$22c54$1@dont-email.me> <10jelfq$2apo7$4@dont-email.me> <8pI6R.1243340$79B9.1051909@fx14.iad> <10jguou$341pn$1@nntp.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net k9QnZ6O/a8DCUwgzReEAhgsbLC95UZgDidZHohqx6hXfisaHgE X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:U3ikjncrX2eX0cpt9RfP0VaqECk= sha256:oJMSg9opsCN7LF15SY44aXQLQGCujeKpu8vQ0TMa4yI= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <10jguou$341pn$1@nntp.eternal-september.org> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80576 alt.folklore.computers:233249 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. He participated in some study tasked by the Canadian government to study C compilers, but he could not talk about what they wrote. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;