I was bored, watching text fling by in ##c on irc.freenode.net, and realized it's basically /prog/, but everyone is quite serious about it. Instead of reading SICP to cure all ailments, you read the ISO C standard. I never see anyone helping if the channel ops are around, the most hilarious of which is Zhivago. He will regularly insult your intelligence, although for the most part it will be warranted. As a Google employee, he knows he's intellectually superior to everyone else. Only thing I agree with him on is that C is a terrible, nasty language.
>>1 realized it's basically /prog/
you say that like it's a bad thing granted it is, but ouch
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Anonymous2009-07-26 15:16
At least on /prog/ there are no little tyrants (and their respective ass-kissers) imposing their opinions by bullying everyone. Here everyone is trully free to express themselves. hax my anus
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!3LrT5NRVks2009-07-26 15:28
As a Google employee, he knows he's intellectually superior to everyone else.
You do realize google is a big corporation these days right? I'll buy that everyone at google was very smart in the beginning, but with 10,000 employees(maybe 5K coders?) there simply are not enough good coders in the world that one company can hire 5000 of them.
I could buy this though: As a Google employee, he knows he's at least slightly competent, even mediocre maybe.
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Anonymous2009-07-26 15:34
Google used to be good and their programmers competent. That is until Chrome. Goddamn, what a mess.
>>10
C is pretty shitty, dude, it's quite evident. It's only perceived as good because there's really no better alternative (that isn't a variation of C) for the jobs C is good for. I mean, Forth could be a contender (very flexible, great abstraction features (for a "medium level" language, anyway)), but stackrobatics kind of fuck it all up, they should find a way to drop it.
>>12 >>13
Obviously the same poster setting up his own joke... but still pretty funny.
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Anonymous2009-07-26 21:48
>>14
i love C.
it is simple, elegant, and powerful.
why the hell would they drop pointers? they're an important part of the language and really not hard to understand if you are sensible about it.
C is supposed to be low level enough to have fine control over what you're doing without being a really high level language. if you don't like "stackrobatics" then just don't use C; stick to languages that patronise you.
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Anonymous2009-07-26 22:14
>>19
That pasta was poorly executed. You should feel bad.
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Anonymous2009-07-26 22:24
>>20
it's not kopipe unless somebody copies it, which as of yet hasn't happened.
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Anonymous2009-07-26 22:26
>>21
If that isn't poorly adapted pasta then I guess >>19 doesn't know what stackrobatics means.
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Anonymous2009-07-26 22:35
>>1 ISO C standard
I raged. As a Google employee, he knows he's intellectually superior to everyone else.
uh. Only thing I agree with him on is that C is a terrible, nasty language.
Then why do you and this faggot have a fetish over this language?
IHBT.
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Anonymous2009-07-26 22:52
spoiler
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Anonymous2009-07-27 14:53
>>23/prog/ is almost as tsundere for C as it is for sepples
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Anonymous2009-07-27 15:18
>>14
There should be a Liskell for C. L? Macros that didn't such would really come in handy for low-overhead programming.
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Anonymous2009-07-27 16:27
>>1
Ah, so you're saying it's kinda like comp.lang.lisp, but with real-time simultaneous multi-player action and authentic battle damage?