Comment by rramadass
1 day ago
What's terrible about the syntax? Using "[[require/ensure/invariant/proof/assert/etc.]]" is actually pretty neat.
And given that almost all C programmers are also C++ programmers, no mere syntax can faze us :-)
1 day ago
What's terrible about the syntax? Using "[[require/ensure/invariant/proof/assert/etc.]]" is actually pretty neat.
And given that almost all C programmers are also C++ programmers, no mere syntax can faze us :-)
In my own ranking of favourite programming languages C is at the first place. C++ comes in last. I personally hate it when people write C/C++ as if it's the very same thing. I'm quite sure there's more like me out there. :)
Interestingly Perl comes in second, even I use it rarely (aka not at all) these days. But that's a slightly off-topic side note. :)
Perl is just C with less type safety.
And yes, for the most part. C++ as simple shorthand for struct-attached functions and automatic memory management (no, not smart pointers; RAAI) is good. Every single thing added after that is misery and should push a modern developer to Rust, Go, or Zig (roughly in that order) where such things are implemented sanely or not at all.
Funny I think of Perl as Bash with slightly saner syntax plus robust regexp. (said with love)
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The only thing Perl and C have in common is the curly-brace.
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I'm always surprised on here when I see others admin to liking C and Perl. It makes me feel less alone.
Many of us were there when yada yada white wizard. Hell, my first paid job was writing Perl CGI scripts. Well, script. Monolithic MFing thing spread across 100 files and running a whole company on text files with zero format documentation and RCS as version control. No need for CVS because the systems were incrementally archived with tar every hour...
Until they weren't. (I'm glad you saw that coming, because they didn't.)
For me, C++ is always in first place. It allows me to do high-level abstractions to low-level hijinks all with total control (i.e. zero-cost abstractions, Templates for compile time programming etc.) across all levels of the software stack and the full spectrum of available hardware.
Furthermore, any C++ programmer who says they do not know C, knows neither C nor C++ (hence my preference in using C/C++ as a shorthand to encompass both and highlight the dependency of the latter on the former). I often see this in novice C++ programmers who started with "Modern C++" and identify it as something like Java/C# because of the now huge set of standard libraries and copious syntactic sugar which only compounds their confusion further.
> Furthermore, any C++ programmer who says they do not know C, knows neither C nor C++ (hence my preference in using C/C++ as a shorthand to encompass both and highlight the dependency of the latter on the former).
Right, but this dependency is one-way. There is an entire legion of C programmers who reject C++ (most notably Linus), so claiming that almost all C programmers are also C++ programmers is a bit off.
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> And given that almost all C programmers are also C++ programmers, no mere syntax can faze us :-)
This is... not true at all.
The inverse is true, however. Especially the "almost" part.