[rescue] C was Cooling

[Dave McGuire]

On April 18, 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.

  Myself, I've never seen a binary generated from a C++ program that was
less than several megabytes in size.  That was enough to turn me off
right there.  And its unreadability is second only to Perl.  From my
perspective, C++ isn't a language in which to develop software or do
work...it's a language to use to impress your peers by the cleverness
and complexity with which you can accomplish what would otherwise be,
in a more reasonable language, a simple task.

> OO is a programming *style*. I can do any OO technique in C, including
> polymorphism and even templates if need be, without need for run-type type
> checking. And when I want, I can easily visualize the assembly language
> instructions that are being generated for this or that. C is fscking
> beautiful.

  Yes, most definitely.  In my C development, I make extensive use of
structs that contain both data and pointers to functions that
manipulate that data.  "Methods" by any other name...

  I've come to feel that the world would be a much better place if C++
would disappear and Java would be renamed to C++ and modified to
always compile to native code.

        -Dave

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Dave McGuire                                 "Mmmm.  Big."
St. Petersburg, FL                                -Den