On Aug 09, 2024, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 09/08/2024 à 00:10, karl@??? a écrit :
> > Hendrik Boom:
> > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 09:35:50AM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> > ...
> > > > Why is C/C++ so absolutely wonderful?
> > C is a really nice language compared to assembler.
> > Though at the time, the assembler of e.g. MC68000 was
> > a little high level lang. inspired with mult. adressing
> > modes. [...]
> >
>
>     Fully agree about C. [...]
>
>     The problem of C is that it is much more subtle than it looks, and it
> contains a lot of pitfalls. There is a new, more secure language,
> which has the distinctive feature of having been accepted into the
> Linux kernel: Rust, but it is not yet stable.

Nor does it work on microcontrollers ;)

(...yet)

Actually, just struck me today as I'm drinking my coffee, a benefit of C
that wasn't touched on is "the manufacturer's examples will be in C".


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