XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 13:36:18 +0100, 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.   
      
   otoh, consider the amount of code written in C. The Win32 API is C as is   
   Gtk. CPython, as you might expect, is Largely written in C.   
      
   Don't confuse a language binding for an API with the native code. That   
   brings up the question of whether a a binding like gtkmm (gtk--) for the C   
   code in Gtk may introduce errors.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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