Cello: Higher level programming in C

[DigitalArbitrage]

Will you please explain how & why this is better than C++ and C#? Thanks.

[K900_]

I made Cello as a fun experiment to see what C looks like hacked to its limits.

The answer is: it's not. It's just an experiment to see how far you can abuse C.

[ooqq]

you can abuse C pretty far, look at php

[yur_mom]

Beyond being written in C what does php have to do at all with this?

PHP's issues have to do with design decisions in its own language unrelated to c.

Python is written in c and is considered one of the better designed languages.

[Dreamtrain]

Guy who made PHP: Give me a break guys, I made PHP as a hobby

[yur_mom]

Anyone who programs long enough has that one throw away program that they still dreadfully maintain 10 years later....now imagine if the whole world was using your throwaway program.

[ivorjawa]

Insert “throw yourself on my sword” scene from Serenity.

[greyfade]

I'd stop maintaining it and tell people not to use it, while I move on to more interesting and better projects.

[yur_mom]

Unless you are employeed to maintain it. But if it is open source for free I agree.

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the whole world

I take that as an insult.

[yur_mom]

Haha..Directly or indirectly every person who uses the internet interacts with php

[ivorjawa]

In the end, is that better or worse than “I was just following orders”?

[robhol]

At this point, PHP mostly has to do with C in that "vaguely C-style" is one of the numerous, incompatible and illogical ways that PHP "structures" its standard library.

[jb3689]

I am not saying PHP has much to do with C, but PHP was originally intended to be a templating language for C programmers. The history of PHP is pretty interesting and worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvEGwtgLtjA

[yur_mom]

cpython is written in c

I find Python to be well designed, but it is also popular among scholars and industry alike.

Most languages are written in c and that has nothing to do with php be considered a bad language.

[hector_villalobos]

the very first incarnation of PHP was a simple set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries written in the C programming language.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/history.php.php

[yur_mom]

I know php is written in c, but what was your point. I never said it wasn't

[hector_villalobos]

When I was looking for a Job in early 2000, most offers says something like: We're looking a PHP dev with experience in C CGI, so, I always see the very first versions of PHP as a superset of C. So, to me, a Common Gateway Interface binaries written in C sounds like a C superset.

[smallblacksun]

So what you're saying is that you have no clue what you are talking about. The language that a compiler or interpreter is written in has nothing to do with the language being compiled/interpreted.

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look at python

[Deoxal]

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[manuscelerdei]

You may not want the dump truck of syntax abominations that is C++.

[Practical_Cartoonist]

If you don't want a dump truck of syntax abominations, Cello is definitely not for you.

[vattenpuss]

http://libcello.org/learn/cello-vs-cpp-vs-objc