Why are there high level languages?

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?

the answer is to use devices that are open by design and avoid closed systems as much as possible

Not everyone can live like Stallman.

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That's a problem with programmers who will try to add bloat no matter what, but there's far less of them using C than other HLLs (presumably because they've jumped to those HLLs instead.)

>>40
Features != bloat. C can make you reconsider that ridiculously complex O(n³) algorithm that would be obvious and trivial to write in a different HLL, so you'll think harder and might come up with a simpler O(n) one instead.

As for string handling, using strcat() and friends is usually stupid, especially if it's in a loop. You're supposed to avoid copying or moving strings whenever possible.