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- From: Auke.Reitsma@net.HCC.nl (Auke Reitsma)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Interest in comments on the C language.
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 18:02:42 GMT
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- orj@cs.waikato.ac.nz (Oliver R Jones) wrote:
-
- > I'm interested in peoples comments on the following aspects of the C
- > programming language. Please be as objective as you can.. :) I know that's
- > hard in a C advocacy group. :)
-
- > 1: Is C inheriantly efficient (speed and code space wise)?
-
- (I think that should be "inherently".)
- Yes, it is efficient -- especially when used with a _good_ optimizer. C is
- a rather 'low level' language, and as such can be nearly as good as
- assembler. But a bad programmer can mess up things horribly ...
-
- > 2: Is C inheriantly very readable and writable? (Easy to code in and for non
- > coders to read)
-
- Inherently: NO! That is simply not possible for _ANY_ language. Any
- programmer/writer can write un-readable junk.
-
- > 3: Is C a very simple language?
-
- Yes.
-
- > 4: Is it consistant with accepted mathematical notations?
-
- Consistent? Why should it? I don't care!
-
- > 5: Why was C designed and for what purpose?
-
- Read "The C Programming Language" ...
- Browse the Web and look for Kernighan, Ritchie, C, Unix etc ...
-
-
- Greetings from Delft, The Netherlands.
-
- Auke Reitsma
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