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C is the best because the hackers is most use the C lang

On 2008-04-29 00:20:27 +0200, Yep <yep@yep> said:

> wrote:
>> C is the best because the hackers is most use the C lang
>
> Is that the only reason you can think of why C is good?

It's actually a pretty good reason. If by hackers the troll means C
programming experts, which i assume for this post, then volume in
numbers can't be a bad thing. But it only stands with the previous
assumption though.

wrote:
> C is the best because the hackers is most use the C lang

Is that the only reason you can think of why C is good?

On Apr 29, 2:42*am, Alef Veld <a...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 2008-04-29 00:20:27 +0200, Yep <yep@yep> said:
>
> > vgn...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> C is the best because the hackers is most use the C lang
>
> > Is that the only reason you can think of why C is good?
>
> It's actually a pretty good reason. If by hackers the troll means C
> programming experts, which i assume for this post, then volume in
> numbers can't be a bad thing. But it only stands with the previous
> assumption though.

If C is best because hackers (expert programmers) use it, then I would
like to stress on - Why do hackers use it . The answer would then
go for why C is best

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:26:00 -0700, vgnsh2 wrote:

> C is the best because the hackers is most use the C lang

C can change your way of thinking, C gives every thing to make your self,
as mother is the first teacher of child just like C is the mother of all
hackers. through C we can understand computer. C is the best.

I was recently hacking into the OpenSSH client (ssh) source code.
It is written in C, and although some code structuring choices are
debatable, thanks to C's explicit flow of control and "transparent
box" approach, it was a matter of minutes to figure out where to
change code. And the changes themeselves did not take long to
implement.
In the ssh client code functions are very long for no apparent reason
to me, and some structures are statically initialised where a dynamic
initialisation would probably have been best.
The change involved adding an extra option on the command line,
changing the password retrieval system and reordering the
authentication methods.
Not a big change, so as expected it did not take long to implement.
I have been programming in C, C++ Java and more recently Python.
Of all those languages, C is the only one where I can see how
productivity and expressiveness increase can be factually measured.

I wouldn't go as far to say C++ is dead. But certainly it has now
reached critical mass.
You'll soon find Python is replacing Java in many environments.

On Apr 29, 11:15*am, Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid> wrote:
> Ricky said:
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> <snip>
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> > If C is best because hackers (expert programmers) use it, then I would
> > like to stress on - Why do hackers use it .
>
> It's obvious - they use it because it's the best.
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best in what terms, you could have added many things like: expressive,
fast, good low level interface, etc etc. It depends on what you are
trying to do.

It is a very easy to measure it. Just like assembler.

And IMHO measurability is the attribute that makes or brakes a
language.

All languages subject to opinion (read hype) more than fact dies a
(slow/fast) death.

I found C's syntax is simpler than java and c++. I don't know which
one is the most powerful language but I think C will not die easily.
It is becoming increasingly popular for scientific applications.
I'm not very sure about the current trends in gaming industry because
even though many popular games have been made in C, every time I go to
game development forums I see people posting C++ codes.