C

[kregg]

It's like an abusive alcoholic spouse - it keeps slapping me and beating me up, I often have numerous bruises on my body, I now walk like a cripple, and I know I should leave him, but I can't. ;_;

What should I do, Jeremy Kyle?

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[Shaggy Hiker]

You need to run a virus

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You need to run

[Shaggy Hiker]

You need, too.

[Shaggy Hiker]

You NEED!

[Shaggy Hiker]

You!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Y

As in: Y do the tags for this thread include "over nine thousand slaps" and "spouse"?

[kregg]

Because, Shaggy Hiker, you were the C compiler all along. ;_;

[wossname]

C is the easiest language ever. Unless you're reading someone elses code, then it's time to fetch the cheap vodka and the razor blades.

[AsmIscool]

I just bought a pizza. I know the guy and I like him. He makes a very good pizza. But on this occasion whoever supplied the prawns forgot to shell them properly. I just spent a good part of the night pulling crustacean exoskeleton out of my teeth. This is a little like programming in C. Get it right and everything is breezy, get it wrong and well I could provide an infinite number generator algorithm. Compiler couldn't help, it went fruitloops on me. Two weeks later and bugger. Semicolon at the end of a function declaration. My forehead and keyboard became well aquainted at that point.

[wossname]

I could provide an infinite number generator algorithm.

Uhh, like...

int i = 0;
while(1)
  printf("%d\n", i++);

[kregg]

C is the easiest language ever. Unless you're reading someone elses code, then it's time to fetch the cheap vodka and the razor blades.

Or unless you've learned a high level language before C. Otherwise, C just seems like a royal pain in the backside.

I blame our university course. They should have taught us C when we were learning assembly and Java - that way we would appreciate Java to a certain limit. Now I'm so comfortable with higher level languages, learning lower level languages can get extremely confusing.

[Milk]

shelovesme = shelovesme->not;

[wossname]

Or unless you've learned a high level language before C. Otherwise, C just seems like a royal pain in the backside.

OO languages are all more complex than C. C doesnt hide anything from you, I think a lot of the trouble people have is trying to put out of their minds that old notion that "C is hard". It's not. It's no more difficult than Basic if you compare them.

If anything, OO languages are harder because there's always a million ways to do any given task. Too much scope for something to screw up and force you to redesign a big chunk of your code. OO does tend to be more amenable to larger products though, C is better suited to smaller apps and libraries and such.

Horses for courses.

[stlaural]

C is the easiest language ever. Unless you're reading someone elses code, then it's time to fetch the cheap vodka and the razor blades.

If you fetch the razor blades you might as well want to spent your money on quality vodka and enjoy it.

[abhijit]

I used to work on an invoicing system that was written in Pro C. Someone decided to rebuild it using java.
The system in Java was never able to match the original performance of the system and was SHELVED in favor of the C based system.

[BillGeek]

quality vodka

See here.