Re:Another go at the Next Big Language
by jhuni on Monday September 03, 2012 @07:39AM
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> By ratio of useful, must have programs (including code used in space missions), C wins, and Lisp doesn't have much (if anything) to show for.
Those programs may as well as have been written in brainfuck for all I care. You can write as many programs you want in a language, that doesn't make that language better.
At the very earliest stage in their functioning, C programs go through a pre-processor that is so horribly stupid it was completely removed from D. Thats just the start of it...
Those programs may as well as have been written in brainfuck for all I care. You can write as many programs you want in a language, that doesn't make that language better.
At the very earliest stage in their functioning, C programs go through a pre-processor that is so horribly stupid it was completely removed from D. Thats just the start of it...
http://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks#C_sucks_because: