<![CDATA[https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/ deserves a fucking record for managing to trigger people into being extremely upset while also demonstrating that they don't understand the actual point being made]]>https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/ deserves a fucking record for managing to trigger people into being extremely upset while also demonstrating that they don't understand the actual point being made

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/topic/f638fcd0-1bc6-494c-b50c-32afbf9263c3/https-faultlore.com-blah-c-isnt-a-language-deserves-a-fucking-record-for-managing-to-trigger-people-into-being-extremely-upset-while-also-demonstrating-that-they-don-t-understand-the-actual-point-being-madeRSS for NodeMon, 09 Nov 2026 09:23:44 GMTFri, 06 Feb 2026 03:34:17 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/ deserves a fucking record for managing to trigger people into being extremely upset while also demonstrating that they don't understand the actual point being made on Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT]]>@jwz @mjg59 the elder Fortran gods patiently dream of their time to return

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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://social.v.st/users/th/statuses/116022627584306332https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://social.v.st/users/th/statuses/116022627584306332Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/ deserves a fucking record for managing to trigger people into being extremely upset while also demonstrating that they don't understand the actual point being made on Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:54:34 GMT]]>@mjg59 Dooming us all to inhuman toil for The One whose name cannot be expressed in signed char.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jwz/statuses/116021662508339058https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jwz/statuses/116021662508339058Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:54:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/ deserves a fucking record for managing to trigger people into being extremely upset while also demonstrating that they don't understand the actual point being made on Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:45:26 GMT]]>It doesn't matter whether C is good or not. It matters that if I write code in two languages that aren't C, and I want it to all be part of the same process, I need to care about C. C pervades all. You cannot escape it. C will outlive all of us. The language will die and the ABI will persist. The far future will involve students learning about C just to explain their present day. Our robot overlords will use null terminated strings. C will outlive fungi.

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