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On Sat, 02 Nov 2024 07:44:28 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

>On a sunny day (Fri, 1 Nov 2024 22:50:41 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Nick Hayward
><nhayward8990@protonmail.com> wrote in <vg3m01$3e15j$2@dont-email.me>:
>
>>On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 19:57:21 +0100, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/1/24 19:04, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>> You can call me old fashioned, but I still believe there's never been a
>>>> more elegant computer language than the original K&R C. You can keep
>>>> the rest; I'll stick with that.
>>> 
>>> Agreed! All the hand-holding of later versions just get in the way.
>>> 
>>> Jeroen Belleman
>>
>>What about C++?
>
>It is a crime against humanity!!!

Most computing languages originate from programmers wanting to play
with programming because solving real-world problems - the things we
pay them to do - isn't interesting.

In academia, they need toys and things to argue about so they keep
inventing languages. It's like economists who can't say "let the
market work, and econ 101 is all anybody needs."

I sat in on one cs class where new languages weren't enough fun, so
the prof lectured about compiler compilers, a whole new layer of
abstraction.