From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   On 08.10.2025 12:09, Bonita Montero wrote:   
   > [...]   
   >   
   > C is really dangerous in that sense because you've to flip every bit   
   > yourself. Better use abstactions you re-use a lot of times. In C there   
   > almost no complex data strructures at all; like a vector in C++ or a   
   > unordered map because it would be a large effort to  specialize your-   
   > self that for every data type. Most C projects stick with simple data   
   > structures which are less efficient. The "generic" types in C which   
   > work work callbacks like with qsort() really suck since their perfor-   
   > mance is better but still not optimal.   
   > I think all developers who use C today are either forced to stick   
   > with C though their job or are persons which think mostly on the   
   > detail level and can't think in abstractions.   
      
   > This is programming like in the beginning of the 90s.   
      
   I disagree in the historic valuation; abstractions were known and   
   used (and asked for) already [long] before. (Even your beloved C++   
   came already a decade earlier, and its designer was influenced by   
   even older abstraction concepts from the 1960's [Simula].)   
      
   But there certainly always have been developers who stuck to older   
   languages with less expressiveness in abstraction; obviously still   
   today. About the (strange or also valid) reasons we can speculate.   
   I would also speculate that many/most developers can not only think   
   in abstractions but know (and can program in) other languages that   
   provide abstraction concepts. (Or so I hope.)   
      
   Janis   
      
   > But today's   
   > machines are capable to handle more complex requirements and these   
   > requirements need a more flexible language so that you can handle   
   > that with less bugs than in a lanugage where you've to do every   
   > detail by yourself.   
      
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