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A comment on C’s Biggest Mistake (2009). Parent comment

Re:C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) by ratww on Saturday September 12, 2020 @08:18PM (#24457106)
> In my experience with language design, a little bit of syntactic sugar can have transformative results.

I agree 100%. This also reminds me of this article:

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/03/its-not-what-program...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22696229

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Re:C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) by elgfare on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:38AM (#24459383)
I totally agree that C shepherds you into pointers. I also think C shepherds you into writing everything from scratch. Most of all I think it's a self-perpetuating cycle of "there's no system for X (e.g. sized arrays, packaging system, classes) so everyone makes their own, and now all other code feels slightly incompatible with all other code."
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