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Re: [f-cpu] Winograd DCT on my seul.org account



Juergen Goeritz wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Martin Devera wrote:
> >> >About languages .. try http://tunes.org/Review/Languages.html
> >> >devik
> >> It doesn't help to compare languages. One has to learn
> >> them anyway and only if you practice for quite some time
> >> will the expertise build up. :-]
> >
> >I was not interested in pure compare. At the URL I found
> >interesting info about each language regarding its suitability
> >for concurent programing which is important for f-cpu IMHO.
> >And also well written critique of C lang.
> >
> >Unfortunately C is too widely used and its codebase is still
> >growing. It is probably good for things like kernel programing
> >but seems to have still bigger problems with large userspace
> >projects ..
> 
> Hi, I agree with your comment that C is not a good
> language for large userspace projects. C was developed
> as a language to implement an operating system and I
> guess that's why you can also use it as a high level
> assembler. To my experience C++ did not improve that
> situation much but instead it enabled a developer to
> disguise the true program meaning by the possibility
> of redefinition of most of the constructs. In which
> case you end up with source code that is unmaintainable
> without the proper documentation. And by documentation
> I mean including the whole conceptual thoughts behind
> the program.
The documentation part is true of any langauge. Asm
programing has a bad name because early assemblers often had 6 
char labels, 3 char memonics and a few K of memory space.
-- 
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
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