On 2013-12-19, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Steven D'Aprano ><steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> But why is so much non-performance critical code written in C? >> Why so many user-space applications? > > Very good question! I don't have an answer. There are a few > "maybe-answers", but they mostly come down to "programmer > didn't know of a viable alternative".
I believe it was Andrew Plotkin (glk, Glulxe, lots of other stuff) who said that writing good C requires something like brain-damage. Once you have acquired the brain-damage, writing C code is no problem; in fact, it feels darn good. And another thing: How many other languages have their very own calling convention? -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
