🚀 go-pugleaf

On 29 Sep 1995, Bob Kitzberger wrote:

> Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@napier.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
> 
> Come on.  You can't post something so blatantly arguable as "C-type
> syntax is much more concise" and then ask for no flames.  Your
> argument revolves around your idealization of C syntax; if someone
> can't attack that, then they can't attack your argument.

I didn't say that you could state your disagreement and your reasons for 
disagreeing... Maybe I should have put an "IMHO" instead. :-) However, 
I'd like you to show me how *concise* other languages can be in their 
expressions.

> Also, I don't buy the part about C "being more powerful".  No flames
> please ;-)

Assembly is more powerful. ;-) Actually, no language is really any more 
powerful than any other. The difference is how accessible that power is 
(in many languages, you have to bend over your back to do anything). Of 
course, there is a balance between power and safety (though the two are 
not necessarily mutually exclusive), and in the case of C, I'll admit 
that it leans towards power just a bit too much.

- Trung