Quote of the week

Posted Jun 4, 2021 13:27 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Quote of the week by Paf
Parent article: Quote of the week

I haven't worked with B, but used FORTH with the exact same property. It's much less “fun” than modern C or C++.

Because in languages like B or FORTH the typical situation is “I had million lines of code which worked, I have added ten lines of code and program no longer works — let me spend couple of hours to see what's wrong with these 10 lines”. But with modern C/C++ it's “I had million lines of code which worked, I have added ten lines of code and program no longer works — let me spend couple of months to see what's wrong with these million lines and what exactly allowed compiler to ~~screw me up again~~ optimize my code in unexpected way”.