Name: Anonymous 2011-09-28 4:22
The purpose of C is to act as a "herding mechanism" that keeps mediocre programmers in mediocre organizations from "doing too much damage". This is at the expense of slowing down productive programmers who know how to use more powerful and more compact techniques.
It doesn't give you the freedom and extendability Forth and Lisp does. Instead you have hard coded, "nice-looking" statements for the most common operations. You've got if, while, for, goto, and return. You must use these, and nothing else.
This makes it easier to learn for non-programmers, at the cost of the programmer's freedom and power.
It doesn't give you the freedom and extendability Forth and Lisp does. Instead you have hard coded, "nice-looking" statements for the most common operations. You've got if, while, for, goto, and return. You must use these, and nothing else.
This makes it easier to learn for non-programmers, at the cost of the programmer's freedom and power.