No, I hate C and will never use it again in my entire life unless forced to at the point of a gun. You're point? :-P Regards, John A. De Goes N-BRAIN, Inc. The Evolution of Collaboration http://www.n-brain.net | 877-376-2724 x 101 On Feb 26, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Jonathan Cast wrote:
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 13:18 -0700, John A. De Goes wrote:
Are you saying has been no progress since K&R C in the number of libraries available to C programmers? And that C programmers still have to edit files with vi and compile and link by specifying all files on the command-line?
You may disagree, but the evidence points in the opposite direction. There are tens of thousands of robust C libraries available to suit any particular programming need. Many of Haskell's own libraries are based on C versions. Tool support for the C language (not for some successor you might think would exist if the language continued evolving) can detect memory leaks, detect memory overwrites, apply dozens of automatic refactorings to C large-scale C programs, etc.
Library and tool support for the C language is light years beyond Haskell. It wouldn't be there if we had been through 20 iterations of C each completely breaking backward compatibility.
Maybe you should use C then?
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