Re: OT: Programming Languages

On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 13:13:12 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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On 2/11/2024 11:40 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 02 Nov 2024 07:44:28 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
 

On a sunny day (Fri, 1 Nov 2024 22:50:41 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Nick Hayward
<nhayward8990@protonmail.com> wrote in <vg3m01$3e15j$2@dont-email.me>:
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On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 19:57:21 +0100, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
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On 11/1/24 19:04, Cursitor Doom wrote:

You can call me old fashioned, but I still believe there's never been a
more elegant computer language than the original K&R C. You can keep
the rest; I'll stick with that.

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Agreed! All the hand-holding of later versions just get in the way.
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Jeroen Belleman

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What about C++?

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It is a crime against humanity!!!

 
Then we're all agreed: C++ is an abomination in the sight of the Lord
and the invention of the Devil himself.

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Jan Panteltje and Cursitor Doom are a very small - and poorly informed -
element of our community.
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That they both agree is evidence that the proposition is probably flawed.

Or - more likely - that it doesn't conform to your rather bizarre
world-view, Bill.