Re: C Syntax
From: Jack Klein (jackklein_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 05/27/04
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Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 22:08:46 -0500
On Wed, 26 May 2004 19:56:05 -0400, Lew Pitcher
<lpitcher@sympatico.ca> wrote in comp.lang.c:
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> Eric Sosman wrote:
> | C# Learner wrote:
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> |> Why is C syntax so uneasy on the eye?
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> |> In its day, was it _really_ designed by snobby programmers to scare
> |> away potential "n00bs"? If so, and after 50+ years of programming
> |> research, why are programming languages still being designed with C's
> |> syntax?
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> |> These questions drive me insane. Every waking minute...
> |
> |
> | If you want COBOL, you know where to find it.
> |
>
> I resemble that remark! :-)
>
> FWIW, if you want a computer language that's really "uneasy on the eye", try
> APL or RPG2. Even Lisp isn't very easy to read.
You haven't liven until you've seen badly written PL/M (note the 'M').
Their equivalent of C's switch...case still gives me nightmares after
all these years.
> OTOH, I've had to read through pages of Java recently (analysis and design of
> a new web component for my corporate masters, requiring review of our current
> j2ee web apps), and if Java is the new "readability", then give me C any day.
> Worse spaghetti code than you could find in any assembly program. I have no
> doubt that C# and C++ are just as bad.
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