Bob La Quey wrote:
I am in basic agreement with using an appropriate scripting language whenever possible. I would say in defense of C, after one builds up from the low level, then one is effectively working with a scripting languge that just has C as its syntax.
Sorry, I might agree, but I have never seen a good set of libraries for C that matches even the basic (hash, list, vector) data structures available in any scripting language.
One is using C functions and libraries that do mostly the same thing that the scripting language is doing.
Then they should go get D (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/) or Objective C or something.
In some ways it is more economical intellectually to simply stay in C. Multi hundred line programs do _not_ have to be inpenetrable if they are well written.
No, but it is more intellectual effort to *read* no matter how well written. Finding a bug in 200 lines is always harder than finding one in 10 lines--even if the 10 line program is Perl ;)
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