On 2024-09-28 17:40:06, Wm. Moss via Dng wrote:
> In my opinion, most people who code should not be using a language that
> allows for pointer access, pointer arithmetic, and the other low level
> access and side effects that are built into the language. That said, there
> are to my knowledge no good Algol based languages in common use. Pascal and
> its progeny (Modular, Modular-2, Modular-3) never caught on and the original
> Iron Man became a horror of complexity as Ada. The current P-Code languages
> such as Python and Java are, for me, too slow and exhibit an annoying
> syntax. Propriety languages such as PL/I could have succeeded if their
> parent companies had released them into the public domain.

What is your opinion about Lua and LuaJIT? I love combining LuaJIT with C.

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