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Good old-fashioned C for me, too. I haven't coded in C for a good few years but I still regard it as my first language. It has an elegance that modern languages just don't have.
I'm lucky to find a brown hair these days, so maybe age is a big factor in this poll.
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C for me too - even if it's the just language I use to unwind after a hard day of Object Orientated functions and procedures <-- I really wish I was joking, but that's just this week.
To contrast with the both of you - I'm pretty sure I'm the only person born in the 90s who understands C.
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Only because I'm born in 1988.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Same.
I miss the simplicity of just C.
I still do my pseudo code in C.
And i had to stop plucking the grey hairs to avoid baldness (and why is it ONE eyebrow that
is much more grey than the other?)
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I had a professor who kept plucking grey hairs to avoid baldness, but it was too late. All the hair he had was grey.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Seriously? Just because it has "C" in its name?
I vote for COBOL then. At least it starts with C.
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Not sure what you mean here. Objective C is a super-set of C and therefore more "C-style" than any other language on the list except C itself.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: Objective C is a super-set of C and therefore more "C-style" than any other language on the list except C itself.
I guess the survey really means "C-style syntax."
Kevin
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I have to agree with Nemanja here!
The Objective-C Compiler will happily compile .c file inside the same project and link to C libs as well as ObjectiveC lib in the same executable. IT can hardly be more C than that!
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I agree in this case. I was just trying to make a general point, as obviously some of the other languages listed are clearly very different from C but use C-syntax.
Kevin
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Haha, I have to agree that the syntax looks alien!
Just wanted to defend it!
Use to love it in 1998!
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Super Lloyd wrote: Haha, I have to agree that the syntax looks alien!
I agree, and my brief experience of Objective C was that it was awful. Swift is much nicer just from no more than a glance at it!
Kevin
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Oh don't mind me, I was just exaggerating because the weird syntax and the weird IDE (== different from what I usually use) had me annoyed a bit.
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I'd rather be using something like Rust[^], but as no-one is paying me to do that, C++ it is.
And for the record, C# is pretty much Visual Basic with some curly braces and semicolons randomly sprinkled around
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: And for the record, C# is pretty much Visual Basic with some curly braces and semicolons randomly sprinkled around My thoughts, really!
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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So what is your least disliked C-style language then?
From what I can see from various posts only Rust looks like the most worthy competitor to C++.
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: what is your least disliked C-style language
Perl?
Probably only because I don't use it any more.
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I guess Perl should have been in that list. It would certainly be top of my most disliked.
Kevin
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: C# is pretty much Visual Basic with some curly braces and semicolons randomly sprinkled around
Sacrilege! Though, yeah, the difference between C# and VB is not actually the language, but the programmer!
Marc
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Provides all of the object-orientation needed for large projects, and may be pared down (almost) to C for kernel-level programming.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Amazing, all other language come from C, so C/C++ you can do anything you want. even C# comes from C/C++. I've been using C since the early eighties, do not get me wrong I like C# and other languages and they have there place. But if I'm working on the low dirty stuff like drivers I always use "C". I hope most people agree with me, that once you learn a language the other one come easy. The problem is most people don't really learn one language so they have trouble with other languages. I wish that schools would stick to one language so the student would learn programing and not "Copy" and "Paste" technique.
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dennislx wrote: all other language come from C
Many languages preceded C, among them Fortran, COBOL, Lisp, Algol (-60 and -68), BASIC, Pascal, and probably others.
I agree with you regarding the teaching of programming. It is better to learn one language well than to learn half a dozen poorly.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Swiss army knife styled C programming. The problem is, you may get yourself hurt with it if you don't know what you are doing.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I like Shawarma[^].
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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