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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Compiler design in C?
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jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:

> Le 09/11/2016 à 20:57, Gareth Owen a écrit :
>> No.  Honestly, I don't think C is a sensible implementation language for
>> anything but constrained embedded work and hardcore bit-banging these days.
>
> OK. Nice. You are entitled to your opinion but what is the point of
> coming into a C forum to say that?

Because I use C to do both those things.

> Personally I do not participate much in C++ forums unless I have a
> question because my c++ is VERY bad.

I don't think C is bad at all.  It's extremely good.
At the things for which it is extremely good.

> I like C because of its simplicity, this unassuming stuff of just
> telling the machine what you want it to do.

Duff's device is simple, eh?  OK.  Sure.

> Containers and other data structures can be written in C much better
> than what I did of course. But my work gives a serious hint to
> everybody that the complexity of c++ is not needed.

The C committee think your work is not needed at all.  They think every
C programmer should roll their own containers, which suggests that their
belief in what C is for is probably closer to mine than yours.

> We can have all the high level abstraction of c++ without any of its
> incovenients. Yes, even a primitive method of generics is quite
> possible using that old but very powerful machine: The pre-processor.

Yes, and I can build a table with butter knife and paper glue.  But it
will be far more fragile than one built using tools designed for the task.