Re: C Syntax
From: Lew Pitcher (lpitcher_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 05/27/04
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Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 19:56:05 -0400
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Eric Sosman wrote:
| C# Learner wrote:
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|> Why is C syntax so uneasy on the eye?
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|> In its day, was it _really_ designed by snobby programmers to scare
|> away potential "n00bs"? If so, and after 50+ years of programming
|> research, why are programming languages still being designed with C's
|> syntax?
|>
|> These questions drive me insane. Every waking minute...
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| If you want COBOL, you know where to find it.
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I resemble that remark! :-)
FWIW, if you want a computer language that's really "uneasy on the eye", try
APL or RPG2. Even Lisp isn't very easy to read.
OTOH, I've had to read through pages of Java recently (analysis and design of
a new web component for my corporate masters, requiring review of our current
j2ee web apps), and if Java is the new "readability", then give me C any day.
Worse spaghetti code than you could find in any assembly program. I have no
doubt that C# and C++ are just as bad.
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