Re: [LUG] GCC compilation?

[Nicholas John Murison <N.J.Murison@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 01:35, Simon Waters wrote:
> Steve Marvell wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:20:13PM +0000, David Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > As a matter of fact I decided that I would like to learn C/C++ only
> > > today.
>
> I have days like that as well. Go lay down for a bit.
>
> Why C/C++? You only "really" learn these things by using them in
> anger, and they aren't terribly good programming languages in
> many ways. Or perhaps I should moderate that to  they are built
> for speed, in much the same way taking the hand brake, and seat
> belts of a car will make it go slightly faster ;) 

I've never quite understood how C is a bad language.  If it's due to the
lack of memory managent, I've always considered that a Good Thing.  The
language assumes the programmer knows what he's doing.  This, to me,
sounds like a reasonable assumption to make.

Regards,
-- 
Nicholas John Murison
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