Re: OT: Which computing language is fastest?
Re: OT: Which computing language is fastest?
- Subject: Re: OT: Which computing language is fastest?
- From: Ian Joyner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:37:18 +1100
On 10 Dec 2010, at 09:29, Antonio Petri wrote:
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>> Fact is, C is the biggest disaster ever in the industry.
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> You started well, I agree that language benchmarks don't mean much. But you cocked up with that statement. I don't know if you are aware of this, but OSes and games are still written
> by far in C/C++, and they are far from being a disaster, and it happens they are among the most reliable software there is.
And so are most viruses and worms (I can cite a great OS that established HLL programming, better than Unix, not written in C). C gets its speed due to lack of checks, buffer overflows, etc. Widespread and used a lot also does not equate to good. Other systems languages were around in the 60s that were far better than C, that could have established good programming practices. C has been a disaster on so many levels. We are now paying for this legacy.
But I don't think we should continue this discussion here.
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