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Why are there high level languages?

Name: Anonymous 2013-09-10 3:46

Why the hell would anyone use Python or Ruby over C. The software should be nice to use. It's not nice when the program is slow as fuck.

Their dynamic nature makes debugging software increasingly hard. Basically developing with these higher level languages takes more time than with C.

Every program should be written in C. In most cases, it would be good to also optimize tight loops with Assembly. This way programs would be fast and fun to use.

Languages such as C# and Java have no point at all. They are essentially crippled versions of C. Limited pointers and limited memory management. The virtual machine takes forever to JIT-optimize the code, thus harming the user experience. Not to mention GC, which slows everything down, providing nothing useful in return. GC is shit.

Then there are these C++-retards. Sure, you can in theory make as fast C++-code as C-code, but is it really worth it? Every C++ program in practice is slower, harder to debug, and harder to develop.

Functional languages, such as Haskell are no answer to problem. They abstract the hardware to hell and are very slow in practice.

So tell me: Why is C and Assembly not used for every program today?

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-16 4:11

If you want features in your code, and C makes you second guess your feature, your project has failed. And it has failed because of C.

Requirements first, and the computer should serve your project. You are first making your requests at the altar of C. C then brings out the whip and punishes you for wanting something that isn't asm-level bit fiddling. You say "Yes, master, I will keep my computing requests in the 1960s" and lick C's shoes.

Fuck that. The computer does my bidding. If I need a feature then that damned feature is going to be in there, because I need the computer to use that feature to serve me.

You have been pussy-whipped by your own computer. How sad and emasculated you are. Stop trying to promote that anything of your submission to computing is useful. It is backwards and it is cancer.

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