What's To Love About C?

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Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 2, 2012 @05:36AM from the favorite-tool-in-the-box dept.

First time accepted submitter edA-qa writes "Antiquated, clunky, and unsafe. Though beloved to some, C is a language that many choose to hate. The mass opinion is indeed so negative it's hard to believe that anybody would program anything in C. Yet they do. In fact a lot of things, even new things, are programmed in C. The standard was recently updated and the tools continue to evolve. While many are quick to dismiss the language it is in no danger of disappearing."

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Sesame Street already covered this by Zephyn · 2012-07-02 05:45 · Score: 5, Funny

It's for cookie.
That's good enough for me.
Fortran is better. by Salis · 2012-07-02 06:05 · Score: 5, Funny

Go ahead. Argue. I dare you.
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Re:news for n00bs by Vlad_the_Inhaler · 2012-07-02 06:05 · Score: 5, Funny

Move along, nothing left to C

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Re:because - by Mike+Buddha · 2012-07-02 06:43 · Score: 5, Funny

And the funny thing is that most people who write const char* foo really want char const * const foo. You don't want either the pointer or the data pointed at to change. However, almost nobody knows that, so even those who do just use the weaker const char* so people understand the code.
Hmm. I wonder why there's so much animosity towards C? It's a mystery.

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Re:Useless submission. by jd · 2012-07-02 07:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Curiosity is real. Unless declared integer.

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