A reader Trevor Anderson of Volokh Conspiracy defends C and blasts Java, Ada and Pascal.
There are other languages, sure, and they are not all bad, I suppose. Java is okay if your objects need to be oriented: it looks a lot like C and its working parts are written in C (I’d bet!), but there is something of the granola-eating, latte-quaffing, socks-with-sandals options-watcher to its aura that I just don’t like. If Java is still too liberal for your tastes there is always Ada, as good an example of totalitarian programming as ever there was. Choc-full of turgid rules and regulations and government interference, invented by comittee with the express intent of keeping incompetent programmers in business. Full of itself, it lets the anal control freaks among us think we’re really in charge. Ugh. Another choice might be Pascal, eminently suited to prescriptivists: no split-infinitives there, pal, just rigid typing and pedantic grammar.
It had me laughing a lot.
christ-do you want to start a religious war?
Yes. C/C++ are the only real languages. There!
to show how much a heretic i am-i’ll say that COBOL is elegant….
C & C++ were used but now…!
Razib: That’s … I am speechless.
Web Designer: They are still used quite a lot actually.
I totally agree to Razib.