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Why C sucks

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-20 11:53

Shitty,slow and bug-prone string functions. NULL termination and strlen are shining examples of defective design.

No memory management, plenty of things going down the drain if
you don't watch them all. Malloc and free are slow and inefficient, and they ruin performance if used in fast loops.

Variadic functions: all C has is shitty macro which doesn't implement anything useful. C cannot determine types of such variadiac arguments at runtime. Everything is static.

Typeof(non-standard)/sizeof/pointer casts in many programs show how defective the implementation of only object C manages(the pointer) natively. Pointers(and arrays which are also pointers) are the glue of C, yet they lack anything useful(like size or datatype,sizeof alternatives like _msize/malloc_usable_size and typeof are ugly non-standard hacks)  and people use void pointers for felxibility.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-22 14:57

I don't think C gets enough credit. Sure, C doesn't love you. C isn't about love--C is about thrills. C hangs around in the bad part of town. C knows all the gang signs. C has a motorcycle, and wears the leathers everywhere, and never wears a helmet, because that would mess up C's punked-out hair. C likes to give cops the finger and grin and speed away. Mention that you'd like something, and C will pretend to ignore you; the next day, C will bring you one, no questions asked, and toss it to you with a you-know-you-want-me smirk that makes your heart race. Where did C get it? "It fell off a truck," C says, putting away the boltcutters. You start to feel like C doesn't know the meaning of "private" or "protected": what C wants, C takes. This excites you. C knows how to get you anything but safety. C will give you anything but commitment

In the end, you'll leave C, not because you want something better, but because you can't handle the intensity. C says "I'm gonna live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse," but you know that C can never die, not so long as C is still the fastest thing on the road.

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