12-18-2005, 09:58 AM
Quote:what drug are you on? c compilers are probably the best optimized compilers around atm. so if a programm written in c is slow, it's the c programmers fault not c's fault.I don't in any way mean to assume, but I think that was her point. :wink:
Quote:you can produce resouce eating bloat ware in any language, and i'd say that c is the one language that will try to reduce the stupidity of the programmer the best by its own.
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Absurd. As far as optimal - and safe - code, C is horrible. How can you say a language that let's you cast from arbitrary objects is trying to reduce programmer stupidty? If anything, C allows the bad coding habits of programmers to shine through - much more so than that of languages like Java or C++. (yeah, GC can be a noticable hit, and programmers who don't understand the ramifications of references verses values will undoubtably write inefficient code, but you have the same thing in C with values and pointers. Besides, we're talking about programmer's habits, and a strong-typed language like C++ only builds better programming habits than a weakly typed, unsafe language like C).
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I don't know what drugs Z!re's on, but I'd rather some of yours - they seem more potent.
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