Subj : Re: C is the most efficient programming language
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : tenser
Date : Wed Nov 10 2021 06:25:39

On 05 Nov 2021 at 07:03a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
 
 pF> -=> esc wrote to Nightfox <=-
 pF> 
 pF>  es> It's fast and efficient because it does basically nothing for you to
 pF>  es> safeguard you shooting yourself in the foot. Troubleshooting things i
 pF>  es> C is so much fun...hehe
 pF> 
 pF> I did my CS school in ANSI C, with a proper IDE, stepping through
 pF> variables  wasn't any better or worse than any other language - or so I
 pF> thought.

Oophf.  The thing is, C lets you express things that are often
associated with errors, but that just aren't representable in
other languages.  What do you get when you add an integer
number to an array in C? Answer: a pointer.  By any reasonable
definition, that should be a type error, but it's not.  Other
languages that don't let you do things that are ... unexpected,
tend to be easier to debug.

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