[rescue] C was Cooling

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
> In my copy of TC++PL, all code is in an italicized non-proportional serif
> font. WTF!? That turned me off from C++ from the start, and I've not liked
> it ever since. I can do C++, but I'd rather be doing it in C.

Yeah, it's a total PITA to read.  The writing style is fine, but the
typography stinks.

> OO is a programming *style*.

It's a <buzzword>paradigm</buzzword>. :)

> I can do any OO technique in C, including polymorphism and even
> templates if need be, without need for run-type type checking.

GTK does this extensively.  I do it with tagged-structs.  The Win32 API
does it with cascading structs.  It's easy when you know how. :)

> And when I want, I can easily visualize the assembly language
> instructions that are being generated for this or that. C is fscking
> beautiful.

Amen.

--Jonathan