There are a lot of smart people here with wide ranging experiences, so I like to ask questions from time to time that get more to philosophy. So "If C is so evil why is it so successful" was one of those questions.
The answer I see is that it is the path of least resistance to the most successful outcome in the time horizon of the effort. Or, it gets the job done. Personally, I am stuck in the machine control world where things like symbolic names and type checking are sometimes non-existant. And I wonder why. SIL-3 and PLe with stone knives and bearskins. On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 04/11/2017 07:03 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk wrote: >> The Balkanized nature of programming is interesting. > You might find more fertile ground plowing the plctalk.net forum when > your questions relate to the STL/SCL/FBD/LAD/CSF area. I am familiar with STL (and some of the others). My question was not for help. I was trying to present a contrast between the nit-picking the list was doing about C and that fact that a huge amount of mission critical programming is done in languages that are essentially machine code. It was a ham fisted attempt. Don't post after too many high ABV IPA's. > FWIW, "STL" in Siemens-talk is an acronym for "Statement List". Why it > isn't "SL" is anyone's guess. Probably for the same reason that PZD is process data. > --Chuck -chuck
