bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
On 09/10/2025 04:49, BGB wrote:
[...]
Nobody cares about C syntax.
That is so manifestly untrue that I can't imagine what you actually
meant.
Many of us, myself included, don't particularly like some aspects of
C syntax, but that's not the same as not caring about it.
Learning all its ins and outs seems be
a rite of passage.
Perhaps. It's also necessary if you want to work with the language.
The trouble is that C-style is so dominant, few people would know
what a decent syntax looks like. Or, more, likely, they associate
a clean, well-designed syntax with toy or scripting languages, and
can't take it seriously.
But if it looks as hairy as C++ then it must be the business!
C syntax has survived and been propagated to other languages because
it's well known, not, I think, because anybody really likes it.
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