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C, simple?C, simple?Posted Mar 28, 2013 17:54 UTC (Thu) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)In reply to: C, simple? by ncm Parent article: Russell: GCC and C vs C++ Speed, Measured
> C isn't really simple at all, it's just uncommonly good at presenting the illusion of simplicity. If it really were simple, you wouldn't like it.
As dlang said, the machine model is very simple compared to that of other imperative languages. Lisp and Haskell are probably simpler, but Java or Python are much more complex (and PHP is so wild that I would argue it -has- no machine model!).
By "if it really were simple, you wouldn't like it", ITYM "if it really were simple, it couldn't be used to program computers", because C's complexity seems to be an unavoidable consequence of physical machines (e.g. having finitely sized types).
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C, simple? Posted Mar 28, 2013 19:50 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
assembly is simpler, and if you only ever had to program one machine it may even be reasonable, but since assembly is different for every system, and it doesn't have any standard way to define higher level structures, C was born
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