XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: Peter@Iron-Spring.com   
      
   On 1/6/26 05:36, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 2026-01-05 19:09, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >> On 05/01/2026 17:48, rbowman wrote:   
   >>> The C changes over the years like being able to declare variables where   
   >>> they are first used and single line comments were something I greeted   
   >>> with   
   >>> "Hell yeah!" rather than "What CS PhD dreamed this crap up?"   
   >>   
   >> Spot on.   
   >>   
   >> C is enough to do the job and simple to learn. Why complicate shit?   
   >>   
   >   
   > My C teacher said it was a mistake to use C as an all purpose language,   
   > like for userland applications. Using C is the cause of many bugs that a   
   > proper language would catch.   
   >   
   > That was around 1991.   
   >   
   > He knew. He participated in some study tasked by the Canadian government   
   > to study C compilers, but he could not talk about what they wrote.   
   >   
      
   This was always my feeling. C is great as a low-level language, but   
   extending its use cases caused a lot of problems. Also, extensions has   
   been added to K&R C (some necessary, but many not) that has complexified   
   the syntax into unreadability. PL/I was designed with all the features   
   that were later added to C, so the end result is cleaner.   
      
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