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

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Many programmers that work in Low level languages like Assembly or C regard high level languages as easy or slow and thus tended to dis them.

John Carmack (Doom, Quake engine, considered an amazing programmer) Best Programming Language has a wider appreciation of IDEs and Languages.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

John Carmack

He's great indeed. Thanks for the reference.

Also what he says about LISP reminds me of The Bipolar LISP Programmer article.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I took an assembly language course once. You know those merge games where you eventually get to double or quadruple your producer's output? Coding in assembly feels like being stuck on 1x, where you have to generate all the basic stuff first, and then build on it, then build on it some more. It takes forever.

I liked understanding the why behind it. But I appreciate other languages that are more accessible.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Yep, it can also be the answer to getting insane performance gains for extremely specific functions / calculations.

The reality of life is the higher level languages let you get more done with fewer errors but with less potential performance.. You can only optimize python so much. Some newer languages like Rust try to balance the two but often make things more complex.