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People who claim that other languages beyond C, C++ are BS. What is their deal? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I have met a couple of them in real life, and a few I have met online. The sample is not significant enough to draw any conclusions about their point of view and background.

I am more than interested in your opinions about the personality and political makeup of people who express this type of pro-C bigotry.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 31 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

In my opinion, C purists are people who REALLY need to wash their fucking dishes, touch grass and get some sunlight. They get too worked up because "all the important things are written in C", the important things being drivers, kernel and most basic stuff that OS needs.

Whenever one talks about performance, just reply with "use Assembly" and their argument is immediately invalidated. You can also mention networking, fault tolerance and how Erlang does a much better job than C or C++ could do, which is why "real adults with real jobs" created it in the early 90s

But mostly, it's ironic that they're becoming C-Conservatives, blaming the "hot new language" for bringing "the kids". You can read the same kind of logic and disdain for C programmers, from LISP programmers, in the Unix Hater's Handbook (1994)

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But we can all agree that JavaScript was a mistake right?

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not using a derivative of Scheme as originally planned was a mistake.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Have never heard of that, will have a goggle

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

disdain for C programmers, from LISP programmers, in the Unix Hater’s Handbook (1994)

I'm definitely looking that up.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nah, I like using C for low level stuff, it balances that it's reasonably high level and procedural with pretty great performance, size and flexibility. ASM is faster, but you are slower when it comes to understanding someone else's work.

For projects that aren't size or performance sensitive, write it in python or whatever the fuck you like, idgaf.

[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Its BASIC with big boy pants on.