My main language is Java these days, but I use lots of other languages as well (e.g. Perl, Python, R, sh, MATLAB, ...). However, C remains the language that I know most thoroughly, and I've used it since 1989.
Poll: Do you know C?
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Re: Poll: Do you know C?
#112Used to know C + Assembly pretty well back in school (thesis + projects on microcontrollers and such) ... All I can do now is read some code ..
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#113I'm not a programmer -- but I was able to learn some HyperTalk back in the day: I really wish they'd make some heavy duty programming language for non-programmers...
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#114As a first reaction I thought, well, more than 50% of HNers fluent with C, the average age should be pretty high probably. But then I realized that actually the average HN age is probably around 25 (from other pools I saw here), so I guess, there are still a lot of fresh programmers learning C. I really hope so. I love higher level programming languages and spent a lot of time with Tcl, Scheme, FORTH, Joy, Ruby, and…
I learned C in college classes, but never really learned it until after a "WTF PHP" moment, so I could dig into the interpreter source to figure out what was going on. Later experience with Python's interpreter and debugging pyrex reinforced my knowledge. I mention this just to say why I think "modern" very-high-level language hackers still end up learning C; the base layer is all written in it, and eventually you've…
I find it more than a little disturbing that the first time you really used C was to figure out the PHP interpreter. It's among the worst C code I've ever seen (aside from code I've seen on dailywtf). After I had to debug something in the PHP interpreter, I refused to have anything to do with PHP ever again.
Anyway I hope for your sake looking at the Python interpreter did more than reinforce your knowledge. It's no stroke of genius, but it's much better written than PHP.
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#115My second ever experience in programming (the first was typing in BASIC on a Soviet trash-80 clone) was typing in example programs from a C book. I did quite a bit of C programming in university. I've contributed C code patches to several Free Software projects. I am currently writing a C compiler. You would think this would qualify me as someone who, if not enjoys, is at least is competent at C. You would be wrong.…
You're compiling C to LISP, and you're not even telling us??? This being HN, I have to quote you for everybody's benefit:
"Vacietis aims to be a C99 to Common Lisp compiler that produces efficient programs that easily interoperate with Lisp functions, and in addition to offer the introspection, debugging and type-safety features of Common Lisp to C programmers."
Re: Poll: Do you know C?
#116I program in C+Python, doesn't get better than that.
I have had to learn JS, but I don't like it.
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#117I do embedded programming. There is only C.
Agree. Though I have C++ available to me, I always use C for embedded and low-level I/O programming.
When it comes to real-time and low-level code, you sure don't want the language doing crap behind your back or during critical parts of the code.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I learned C in college classes, but never really learned it until after a "WTF PHP" moment, so I could dig into the interpreter source to figure out what was going on. Later experience with Python's interpreter and debugging pyrex reinforced my knowledge. I mention this just to say why I think "modern" very-high-level language hackers still end up learning C; the base layer is all written in it, and eventually you've…
I find it more than a little disturbing that the first time you really used C was to figure out the PHP interpreter. It's among the worst C code I've ever seen (aside from code I've seen on dailywtf). After I had to debug something in the PHP interpreter, I refused to have anything to do with PHP ever again. Anyway I hope for your sake looking at the Python interpreter did more than reinforce your knowledge. It's no…
> It's among the worst C code I've ever seen
I already hated the interpreter before I dug into it, and my expectations were reinforced. I was a college intern, I didn't choose PHP!
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#120I wrote in C during teh late Jurasic period. But I love C#!