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RE: Point by point
by moltonel on Fri 11th Jan 2013 10:06 UTC in reply to "Point by point"
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In what way is C simple? Take someone who's got a good background and mind for programming and show them C. See how long it takes them to actually understand how to (...)

C is much simpler to understand fully than most other languages, in the sense that you understand exactly what a given line of code does. You pretty much know what (unoptimized) assembly will be generated by reading C. Try that with python, java, or even C++.

Of course C is harder to understand when you start with the language, but that's not what the author is talking about. He's talking about very experienced programmers (which he is).

"Faster Build-Run-Debug Cycles"

In what universe?

In the universe where java is not a "comparable language" I suppose, but I admit I wonder about this one too.

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