On Sun, 02 May 2021 18:17:45 -0400
"Greg Reagle" wrote:
Dear Greg,
> Do you have any other suggestions for alternatives to C?
this question is too general. For academic purposes (HPC, data
analysis, numerical mathematics, statistics, etc.) I can recommend
Julia.
> I haven't started re-writing
On Mon, 03 May 2021 19:40:04 -0400
"Greg Reagle" wrote:
> > Would sbase suck less if the program head, which is currently a C
> > program of 77 lines, were replaced with something like
> > #!/bin/sh
> > sed "$1"q
Not really because although head is pretty simple, it's a bit more
complex
On 21/05/03 05:27, Greg Reagle wrote:
> And if it has less lines, in a higher level language, sounds like a win.
Higher level languages usually mean more complexity and less control. Having
less lines in a higher level language doesn't mean much if the language adds
unnecessary overhead "behind th
