On Mon, 02 May 2016, FRIGN <d...@frign.de> wrote: > Benjamin Franklin said this: > “Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they > deserve, either one.” > And this defines what it's all about. > C is all about freedom, and any measure a higher level language applies > is a cut in freedom while increasing "security". There's no way around > it.
Pretty interesting take. However there's a big difference between the state and a programming language - you can easily choose the one you like, to get one job done, and you don't have to give up on another for a different job. I wouldn't write an OS kernel in Python, and I would never bother writing a webapp backend in C. If I were writing a compiler for a new language (even C-like), I would start in Python! Then rewrite the compiler in the target language, and throw away the initial Python implementation.
