Have fun playing with a chainsaw with the safety disabled

John_Cena · on July 15, 2024

Have fun playing with your Fischer Price KidSafe™ playset? >:)

At some point we are just outlining in general terms what we want from a language. If C was a toolbox it is a limited number of essential tools, other languages add so many things Alton Brown would faint from the unitasking nature of them.

C programmers love this. I know I do.

raverbashing · on July 16, 2024

The "kids tool" comment is so weird.

I could do pretty much whatever I wanted in (DOS) user space with Pascal.

I can do pretty much whatever I want in a modern OS user space with whatever lang I prefer. "Oh but you might need C bindings" because the OS was build that way! (And with Windows/COM you might prefer a C++ bindings - just saying ;) )

> If C was a toolbox it is a limited number of essential tools

C is an old toolbox where 1/3 of them is a rusty finger-remover, 1/3 is a clunky barely do nothing metal crap and 1/3 of them kinda works

I'm all for a simplified set of essential tools, but not one where it's sharper on the user handle than it is on the business end

bUt C iS jUsT hIgH lEvEl aSsEmBlY no it is not