[rescue] C was Cooling

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> For me C syntax still looks like someone took some nice Pascal code, 
> loaded it into a shopping cart and sent it careening into a brick wall 
> in a totally inelastic collision.  It's too short-handy IMHO.  This 
> codes snippet makes me cross-eyed :-P

That's because that's not C.  That's the crapulous ass-boil known as C++.
C code can look amazingly clean; perhaps not as clean as Pascal code, but
definitely clean.  C++ code never ceases to amaze me in it's sheer
ugliness.  Hell, even Bjarne's examples in _The_C++_Programming_Language_
tend to look like either a beginner's first attempts at programming or
some smart-ass's attempt at cramming a maximal number of operators and
indirections on a single line of code.

I miss Pascal, especially Borland's dialect of Object Pascal.  I wonder if
FPK has gotten good-enough on non-x86 platforms as to be ready for actual
usage.

--Jonathan