Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them

Re:Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them by avgcorrection on Monday July 03, 2023 @10:09PM (#36581330)

Mathematics is such an unprincipled mess of DSLs. I wonder why math domains always come up as the sticking point with the caveat of “but not operators for anything else, though”.

It would be nice, for sure, to be able to define some infix combinators.

Anyway, it’s bad enough that arithmetic has pressured almost all programming languages to adopt operator precedence. (No operator precedence other than either go-left or go-right is so much simpler. Which would also mitigate some of the complaining about custom operators since then they just become infix functions.)

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Re:Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them by kaba0 on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:42AM (#36597014)

I agree with you on a theoretical level, but arguably we should not be the ones to bear the complexity of that decision — the representation of a given data is very important for our “limited” human brains.

I think the major problem here is shoehorning everything into a “symbol soup” on a 2D matrix. I do get that it has plenty advantages (can be typed without special program, easier version control, etc), but I would like to see a resurrection of interest in visual language. I’m not meaning something as visual as scratch or so, but some special blocks could come in handy.

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