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Re:I Do Not Know C: Short quiz on undefined behavior (2015) by red75prime on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @02:02AM (#13641771)
You don't need speed, but you want to write in a language, which is closest to assembly? Hmm. Interesting view on what is simple.
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Re:I Do Not Know C: Short quiz on undefined behavior (2015) by umanwizard on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @03:06AM (#13642046)
Maybe we mean different things by the word "simple". What language do you think is simpler than C?
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Re:I Do Not Know C: Short quiz on undefined behavior (2015) by adrianN on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @04:35AM (#13642370)
Scheme, ML, Java, Lua...
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Re:I Do Not Know C: Short quiz on undefined behavior (2015) by umanwizard on Thursday February 16, 2017 @05:54PM (#13664375)
Yeah, we must have different definitions of simplicity, as I expected.

Just off the top of my head, Java has the following complexities that C lacks: exceptions, garbage collection, class inheritance, generics, and a very large standard library.

What definition of simplicity are you using when you say Java is simpler than C?

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