All My Homies Hate C: A Zoomer’s Perspective on the Ancient Language

https://medium.com/@kurtisknodel/all-my-homies-hate-c-9690192a0aa3

by catacombs • 6 years ago

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the_hoser2• 6 years ago

It seems that the complaint is "I don't understand this thing, so I hate it."

That's a very immature way of thinking.

jfengel• 6 years ago

Especially for a thing that you're new to. I find that "hello, world" is always the hardest program to write, because the kinds of mistakes you make result in nothing happening. You get very little to go on for debugging. Often, there may be nothing to Google. "I type run and nothing happened."

You can't really properly hate a language until you're an expert on it. Young developers love to hate languages, because it's the thing right in front of them, without realizing any of the actual challenges that go into software development. Which include living with the fact that writing "hello, world" is frequently incredibly frustrating.

the_hoser2• 6 years ago

"You can't really properly hate a language until you're an expert on it."

So true. So very, very true.

All My Homies Hate C: A Zoomer’s Perspective on the Ancient Language

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