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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: Programming Languages Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 07:44:05 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 15:44:08 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="eef40746e7975c3d1234bb8936067de2"; logging-data="4034413"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18HAEMqexOWYHecQrQn0dsZ" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:WcIDb+BeUF3Bjpjll+f7TrzIWHc= Bytes: 2214 On Sat, 02 Nov 2024 07:44:28 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote: >On a sunny day (Fri, 1 Nov 2024 22:50:41 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Nick Hayward > wrote in : > >>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.