On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Laurent Deniau wrote:
Henning Thielemann wrote:
Productivity, robustness, maintainability: purity, type system, etc.
Parallelism!
'type system' is something where C derivatives and scripting languages are
weak - but their users count this as advantage.
Rarely (maybe in the 70's but not since C89). They count as an advantage
simplicity, portability and efficiency. If you can provide a better type
system to C while keeping these points, you are welcome. Still, it is easy to
make your code strongly typed in C with some discipline.
If this would be true, they would have switched to Modula II quickly ... I
know that C programmers also like the concise/cryptic/inconsistent syntax.
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