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C-Based languages

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-19 21:01

C is an amazingly designed language.  It's beautiful, simple, elegant and fast.
Everything a well designed programming language should be.

C++ then came along and shit all over Dennis Ritchie's masterpiece.  Bjarne took a beautiful, simple, elegant and fast language. And kept shitting on it until all that was left was 'fast'.  Dennis should of beat the shit out of him for turning his work of art into an abomination.

Then Gosling came along, surveyed the turd that Bjarne had dropped, and attempted to clean it up.    He redesigned C++ to remove the crap and attain the elegance that C had.  Unfortunately, in his cleaning frenzy, he over-simplified the language and sacrificed speed.  In the name of simplicity he removed pointers, manual memory management,  generics, operator overloading and native code compilation.  A noble effort, but ultimately just as much of a failure as C++.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-20 14:15

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I don't get why people think C is well designed, or Dennis Ritchie was a good language designer. C lacks design. A C compiler, especially back then, was basically a macro preprocessor for assembly. It's like what Coffeescript is to Javascript. Now look at Haskell, Smalltalk, or Go; that's what a well designed language looks like.

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