My advice on implementing stuff in C: [LWN.net]

My advice on implementing stuff in C:

Posted Oct 16, 2010 13:15 UTC (Sat) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: My advice on implementing stuff in C: by dskoll
Parent article: Russell: On C Library Implementation

If your code is unmaintainable, it's usually not because of language features, but because you have misused a language feature or you have chosen the wrong one for the problem.

My advice on implementing stuff in C:

Posted Oct 16, 2010 19:50 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (1 responses)

If your code is unmaintainable, it's usually not because of language features, but because you have misused a language feature or you have chosen the wrong one for the problem.

What I assert is that there are many dangerous features in C++ that are easy to misuse. This is what I mean when I write that C++ is a horrible language; there are much better-designed languages that take a lot more effort to misuse. :) (C, Tcl, Lisp spring to mind immediately...)

My advice on implementing stuff in C:

Posted Oct 19, 2010 10:23 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Tcl and Lisp are so flexible that they can be very easy to misuse in the wrong hands. This is mostly because of the very feature that gives them expressivity: the macro system (for Lisp) or ability to redefine every word in the language (for Tcl and for that matter Forth).