I concur.

shut up, clanker. nobody asked.

won’t somebody please think of the billion dollar company?

This has nothing to do with the billion dollar company, and I have no lost love for Microsoft.

It's about quality of discourse among us, and Microsoft has nothing to do with that.

what do you think about Micro$haft WinBlowz

> C is an abstraction of the machine, so thin it's nearly transparent.

Looks like someone fell for the C abstract machine trap yet again. No, C is isn’t an abstraction of the machine.

C Is Not a Low-level Language: Your computer is not a fast PDP-11.

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3212477.3212479

As a corollary, all processors are C VMs, anyway.

It may not be an abstraction of a real machine. But the C abstract machine is very close to the foundational idea of how a computer work. And it’s quite easy to bootstrap.

Importantly my work involves me often being able to look at C and think about the assembly and back and I regularly work on ESP32, ch42(riscv) and atmega avr8.

I couldn't do that with mciropython on any platform.

C is a thin abstraction, python isn't.

How much of it are C extensions not covered by the language standard?

they're technically not wrong. C is literally an "abstraction" of the machine. As we know, the whole point of an abstraction is to ignore the multitude of details :-)

For every complex problem there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong.

This is not the gotcha you think it is. Nobody that has used C++ in a non-trivial setting would regurgitate that Stroustrup quote unironically. C++, much like Powershell, is a warcrime of a language.

I'll give it up to Powershell though, it actually had some good ideas... albeit with awful execution. Can't say the same about C++.

“Don’t ask questions, just consume Product and then get excited for next Product”.

By all means, write some Go instead—you might want to order a new `if err != nil` button to stave off the RSI. The rest of us are trying to make things better.

Touch some grass, friend.