Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan...
by stcredzero on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:36PM
(#12314629)
Languages that look a lot like C are what you get from systems level people doing near-bare-metal programming.
On CISC computers back in the day, K&R C statements supposedly resulted in an average of 2.7 machine language commands.
You're not going to fix the language, you need to convince the people doing the work that you have something better. And for the most part, something better doesn't exist.
You mean, something better enough that it justifies the short term cost of moving to a different language/environment.
On CISC computers back in the day, K&R C statements supposedly resulted in an average of 2.7 machine language commands.
You're not going to fix the language, you need to convince the people doing the work that you have something better. And for the most part, something better doesn't exist.
You mean, something better enough that it justifies the short term cost of moving to a different language/environment.