Re: C coding

But programmers do make life easier for themselves. The last ten years have shown tremendous progress in this area. New languages (Python and Ruby being great examples - Python is a higher abstraction OO that makes shooting oneself in body parts almost impossible), Continuous Integration, automated build chains with quality checks, automated unit testing etc etc. And look at environments like Wiring and Processing - addressing areas that previously had very, very high thresholds, now simplified to a level where it's, well, simple.

/Joakim

14 feb 2014 kl. 08:43 skrev "frank kolmann" <fkolmann@xxxxxxxxx>:

Hi Erik

I have recently gone through the agony of learning C.
I am by no means an expert. However all the other languages I learnt
as easy as breathing.
Learning C was like giving birth.

Finding C syntax errors on compiles is like winning a lottery, it is so
very Very very hard, I almost need to have a compiler in my head.

If C is best we have for coding it is no mystery to me that
Program Coding is beyond the ability of most people.
I find it tremendously ironic that programmers set up systems to make
life easier for others but no one, it seems, can set up a programming
language that is both powerful and simple to code.

C is just a tool and it is appropriate for what it does.

One chooses the vehicle appropriate for the task,
imo using C for business code is like using a crawler tractor
with a hydraulic powered jack hammer to crack a nut
myself I prefer to use nutcracker pliers (RPG ILE).


PS calling people names does not help your argument.

If someone thinks of C as mainly a vehichle to help you shooting yourself
in the foot then you should probably go into some business. That is just
ignorant and moronic. The language at number 1 for feb 2014 in the TIOBE
index, really? Remind me, where is RPG IV again? I guess the leaders of
North Korea think they are the centre of the universe too.

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