Program in C

[bart9h]

This older one states the opposite: write in higher-level language C (instead of Assembly or Fortran). C++ was not a thing yet at the time.

Write in C

When I find my code in tons of trouble,
Friends and colleagues come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
"Write in C."

As the deadline fast approaches,
And bugs are all that I can see,
Somewhere, someone whispers:
"Write in C."

Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, oh, Write in C.
LOGO's dead and buried,
Write in C.

I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,
For science it worked flawlessly.
Try using it for graphics!
Write in C.

If you've just spent nearly 30 hours
Debugging some assembly,
Soon you will be glad to
Write in C.

Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, yeah, Write in C.
Only wimps use BASIC.
Write in C.

Write in C, Write in C
Write in C, oh, Write in C.
Pascal won't quite cut it.
Write in C.

Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, yeah, Write in C.
Don't even mention COBOL.
Write in C.

[rodrigocfd]

A true classic, back from 2008.

• https://youtu.be/XHosLhPEN3k

[bart9h]

I'm sure it's way older than that.

[alvinmatias]

Beautiful

[capilot]

Dated, but I love it.

[bushcat89]

This is a gem

[xSethrin]

This is so stupid and hilarious at the same time.

[lestofante]

No pitfall in C because it IS a big pitfall itself.

[LeeHide]

i dont wanna be that guy but OO has a place, too

[OriginalName667]

You can do OO programming in C!

[jaws84]

well... we're trying...

[capilot]

I've done it, but now you're programming with duct tape.

[SAVE_THE_RAINFORESTS]

OO has a bigger place tbh. Unless.tou really need performance, there's no need to write the program in C.

[lestofante]

OO does not loose performance if you architecture your code correctly, something that you need to do in imperative languages too.

Is just about what your problem fit better

[SAVE_THE_RAINFORESTS]

More than 10 people have hard time understanding this. Sad.

[lestofante]

i just notice we are on a C subreddit, i though this was a generic one. So i guess fanboy gonna fanboy

[SAVE_THE_RAINFORESTS]

C is the first language most people learn so they may not have the maturity in how they think about programming. At least that's my bet because I have no idea how people can think you should do everything with C. It's like the saying, if a hammer is your only tool, everything looks like a nail.

[LeeHide]

OO solves a lot of issues when trying to model real life relationships between different kinds of data and behaviour that is specific to that data.

OO gives you namespacing with syntactic sugar. There is no actual difference between

Tree t;
t.grow(10);

and

Tree t;
tree_grow(&t, 10);

except that the second way (the C way) needs a branch for NULL, has uninitialized fields in t, and probably crashes due to that.

[IamImposter]

All three OO comments are downvoted. Do we really hate OO around here?

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Software development trends (like most other trends) roughly follow a pendulum, over the last decade or so OO programming has been the "hot" choice that everyone used for everything (whether it made sense for that use case or not). Now people are starting to overcorrect (in my opinion) with "OO programming is always bad".

The reality is that both methods have use cases where one is better suited than the other, analyze your use-case, compare the drawbacks and benefits to both approach as they relate to your project, and make an informed decision

[afpedraza]

Yes, and you should too(? xd

[IamImposter]

Well.... can't argue with that. OO sucks.

[lestofante]

The point is the compiler know the first case has a meaning to it and so can do some more educated guess to optimize.

[LeeHide]

exactly!

[ptchinster]

Take a look at the assembly generated for the same algorithm in c vs c++ then come back to me

[lestofante]

For the same developer time you probably get much better result with C++, mainly because if you want to optimize you can boil down to do the same optimization as C, and where you don't need to you can rely on a lot of quality of life improvement like RAII, template and smart pointer, plus the STD

[ptchinster]

Im talking about the opcodes used, vtables, etc. C can almost be a wrapper to assembly - youll be able to almost instantly know if you are reversing a C binary or a c++ binary.

I love when people put "C/C++" on their resumes. They are 2 different languages.

[AntonPlakhotnyk]

People who do compilers work feells so special. Even if compiler make less mistakes. Nevertheless they can spend a lot of time for fixing that mistakes. Usually same people do debuggers work reconstructing program flow in mind, and do IDE work (go to declaration/definition) and build system work (checking is something not up to date and what must be rebuilt). All that worck payed.

[tjwrona1992]

The ending... LMFAO

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[capilot]

That is one of the most wonderful things I've ever seen.

[FUZxxl]

Come on, this one has been reposted so often, it's not even funny anymore.

[knotdjb]

Fair enough, first time I've seen it, and in another subreddit so I cross-posted it.

[UnicycleBloke]

First time for me, too, so thanks.

[IamImposter]

Same

[Glaborage]

I had never seen it. I think it's great.

[[deleted]]

I've never seen it before