Re: C or C++ for FOSS/linux?

Jan Panteltje wrote:

I cut and paste from a previous coded linked list.
It is written so generic that all I have to do is change some name that
takes 5 seconds with my editor.
If the structures making up the list need other members, then you will
have to specify those in C++ too.
That said I have seen people write linked lists in 5 lines in C in
probably less then 5 seconds.
Just that it took me much longer to understand their code :-)

So how can you possibly claim that "coding in C is so much simpler and
faster" while at the same time you confess that each and every time you
need to use trivial things like basic data structures you need to spend a
considerable amount of time writing them by hand and debug them? Where's
your "simplicity and quickness"? And we haven't even touched the algorithm
side of it yet.

The C programming language is a great tool, as C++ is. Both have their
strengths and their weaknesses and therefore both are better suited to
perform certain types of tasks. Therefore, this whole "language A is so
awesome and so superior to language B in each and every possible way"
discussion you are trying to have here is so braindead that it isn't even
funny.

Oh well... Trolls are simply trolls...


Best regards
Rui Maciel
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