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On 07/07/2015 03:33 PM, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 03:12:52PM -0400, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>   All of that is purely subjective.  FOR ME, yes, C is nearly the
>> ultimate in fun.  My C code has far fewer bugs than my code in nearly
>> any other language, my code size (the binary...which is all that really
>> matters!) is a fraction of anything else, and "better"...well that just
>> spells "subjective" right there.
> 
> There's a lot to like about Python etc.  But C is an established
> ISO standard.  I have C code that I wrote 20 years ago that runs
> flawlessly.  Can't say that about Python.  The best you can do is
> claim that since Python is open-source and written in C, you can
> freeze an arbitrary Python version and run it forever.  But that
> is somewhat impractical, given the goals of grabbing python modules
> from wherever, and given the size of its code base.

  Absolutely.

> I'd like to see at least one of Python, Lua, Nim, Julia, ... reach
> the level of maturity and stability that we have in C today.  But
> that clearly won't happen quickly.  And it's hard to crystal-ball
> gaze and figure out which one deserves our brain cells today.

  Too true.  It's always a gamble.  I believe the world truly needs a
language that's established and standardized to the level of C, but that
isn't the abortion that is C++ or the lumbering pig that is virtualized
Java, that compiles all the way to a native executable binary.

> For all the javascript bashing I heard here, I'd like to point out
> that it, too, shows up as an ISO/IEC standard.

  True.  Now if one could only compile it to a native binary.  It's not
that bad of a language, overall.

              -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA