Re: OT: Programming Languages

On Sun, 03 Nov 2024 09:24:39 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:

On Sun, 03 Nov 2024 08:59:36 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
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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 ve

rsions 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.

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

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His world view is that he knows everything and everyone else is stupid
so deserves insults.
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That's really sad.

I had to laugh out loud when I read that because it's *so* true. The
condescension in particular is off the scale. It's a wonder he deigns
to talk to anyone at all! But his limited vocabulary gives him away
every time. Have you noticed how fond of the word 'fatuous' he is?
That's his go-to insult for just about everything.