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Quoth · 12-27-2022, 04:54 AM

The problem is that people should have stopped using C for new projects, because it's so obsolete and terrible.
It's an indictment of how unprofessional the Industry is.

C generated by pre-processors or cross-compilers etc is fine. That's just using it as sort of machine independent assembler. It's not the same problem as human written C which has no advantages at all and only disadvantages now.
C++ was better than C in 1987 and now much better. It would have been better still if AT&T hadn't insisted on C compatibility. I've debugged so many stupid programs that are allegedly C++, but really more like C compiled with a C++ compiler.

12-27-2022, 04:54 AM	#203
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,574 Karma: 108666825 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	The problem is that people should have stopped using C for new projects, because it's so obsolete and terrible. It's an indictment of how unprofessional the Industry is. C generated by pre-processors or cross-compilers etc is fine. That's just using it as sort of machine independent assembler. It's not the same problem as human written C which has no advantages at all and only disadvantages now. C++ was better than C in 1987 and now much better. It would have been better still if AT&T hadn't insisted on C compatibility. I've debugged so many stupid programs that are allegedly C++, but really more like C compiled with a C++ compiler. Last edited by Quoth; 12-27-2022 at 05:04 AM.