Re: C coding

Hi Erik

I have recently gone through the agony of learning C.
I am by no means an expert. However all the other languages I learnt
as easy as breathing.
Learning C was like giving birth.

Finding C syntax errors on compiles is like winning a lottery, it is so
very Very very hard, I almost need to have a compiler in my head.

If C is best we have for coding it is no mystery to me  that
Program Coding is beyond the ability of most people.
I find it tremendously ironic that programmers set up systems to make
life easier for others but no one, it seems, can set up a programming
language that is both powerful and simple to code.

C is just a tool and it is appropriate for what it does.

One chooses the vehicle appropriate for the task,
imo using C for business code is like using a crawler tractor
with a hydraulic powered jack hammer to crack a nut
myself I prefer to use  nutcracker pliers (RPG ILE).


PS calling people names does not help your argument.

>

>If someone thinks of C as mainly a vehichle to help you shooting yourself
>in the foot then you should probably go into some business. That is just
>ignorant and moronic. The language at number 1 for feb 2014 in the TIOBE
>index, really? Remind me, where is RPG IV again? I guess the leaders of
>North Korea think they are the centre of the universe too.
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