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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.

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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.