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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: transpiling to low level C
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:22:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 20:08:53 +0100, Bonita Montero wrote:

> C++ is more readable because is is magnitudes more expressive than C.

And it is certainly more surprising than C. Often unpleasantly so.

> You can easily write a C++-statement that would hunddres of lines in C

Yes, but *which* hundreds of lines, exactly, would be the correct C 
equivalent?