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A comment on Ask HN: What languages teach the wisdom of C without the uglyness of it?.

Re:Ask HN: What languages teach the wisdom of C without the ... by towaway1138 on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:49AM (#19168748)
Noting that that link was closed as "not constructive".

Not sure what about (say) ANSI C is particularly ugly. The business about pointers to arrays versus pointers to array elements is a bit annoying (and a mistake in retrospect). But that's about it. The rest makes perfect sense.

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Re:Ask HN: What languages teach the wisdom of C without the ... by flavio81 on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:16AM (#19171043)
> The rest makes perfect sense.

Yes, if we are in 1967, just before Algol-68 was proposed.

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Re:Ask HN: What languages teach the wisdom of C without the ... by towaway1138 on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:43PM (#19175435)
Arguably Algol was better, in the sense of being higher-level and with fewer sharp edges. But it looks like C probably exposes a lot more of what's actually going on with memory, pointers, the stack, the heap, etc. That's not always good, but you'll learn a lot that you can't really get with a language like Java or Python.
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Re:Ask HN: What languages teach the wisdom of C without the ... by IcePic on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:35AM (#19169399)
well, the many overloaded meanings of stars is cumbersome.
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