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| Date | 2014-01-17 18:08 +0000 |
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| From | lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> |
| Organization | Trollbusters 3 |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: What's the best non-JVM native language to look at? |
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On 17/01/14 16:28, Joshua Cranmer đ§ wrote: > On 1/16/2014 7:05 AM, lipska the kat wrote: >> I can't think of a language that isn't ultimately implemented in C. > > Zero-cost exception handling cannot be expressed in (ISO) C code (or, at > the very least, not in a way that a C compiler will faithfully compile > it--in the situation that would arise, clang and gcc are both extremely > happy to mangle the code, even at -O0). Well, MSVC has __try/__catch, > but that's not ISO C. I've been reading up on this Zero-cost exception handling thing. It seems that while there may be no overhead for exception handlers if no exception is raised, the performance of exception propagation is poor. Maybe it should be called 'Zero-cost exception handling if no exception occurs'. It's not impossible though is it, it's a compiler thing so it *could* be implemented ... if the compiler supported it. It's not a fundamental shortcoming of the language per-se is it? >> If you think about it, any language *other* than C is simply a high(er) >> level interface to C (ignoring assembler of course). Even C compilers >> are written in C (go figure :-) > > Clang is written in C++. GCC is written in C++ as of 4.8. MSVC is > written in C++. I'm pretty sure icc is also written in C++. Open64 > appears to be in C++ as well. Which means that all the C compilers which > find major use are written in C++, not C. According to lots of references on the intertubes the first C++ compiler was written in something called 'C with classes' which was written in ... C >> Unless there is a revolution in the development of software development >> languages I can't see C becoming obsolete any time soon. If you spend >> time with C it will help you with almost any other language you can >> think of. It's a no-brainer AFAICS. Use Java to earn good money, learn C >> as an essential addition to your skill set. > > I have reached the point where I find C unusable as a programming > language. While it lets you bury yourself in details and change things > to your hearts content, it also requires that you bury yourself in > details--you can't convert C code into partially-managed memory like you > can in C++ with std::shared_ptr or std::unique_ptr. Also, C lacks a > usable standard library (no hash maps, no auto-growing arrays). And I > can go on and on. I'm sure you can but implementing simple dynamic data structures (Linked List for example) in C is trivial isn't it ... I've never really been attracted to C++, don't know why TBHWY, I have a couple of books. Too busy earning a crust I suppose. -- Lipska the Kat©: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer, treacherous feline and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun GNU/Linux user #560883 - http://www.linuxcounter.net
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What's the best non-JVM native language to look at? Saxo <jeti789@web.de> - 2014-01-16 04:35 -0800
Re: What's the best non-JVM native language to look at? lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> - 2014-01-16 13:05 +0000
Re: What's the best non-JVM native language to look at? Saxo <jeti789@web.de> - 2014-01-16 07:05 -0800
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Re: What's the best non-JVM native language to look at? lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> - 2014-01-17 18:08 +0000
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