Hi, I'm Swastik Baranwal, a software developer from New Delhi, India passionate about open-source contribution, Gopher, Pythoneer, Compiler Design and DevOps.
I never said that C has no pointers. I meant C++ std::string.
I keep hearing that C is no longer a High Level Programming Language because it is no abstractions, has pointers, have to handle memory on our own, no string data type, unsafe etc.
About the STD: the C++ Standard Library is a implementation of common useful objects as abstractions. The existence of such thing in C++ doesn't invalidate that C has its own abstractions as I mentioned. I really suggest you to check how C language is constructed and how to implement some basic things such as a basic server with threads, open/read/write files or a basic calculator in C.
I have no intention to offend you but seems like you have no basic notion of how C language works or what is concepts like abstractions and basic data types.
Hi, I'm Swastik Baranwal, a software developer from New Delhi, India passionate about open-source contribution, Gopher, Pythoneer, Compiler Design and DevOps.
There are more letters to be written in C++ and you are including in your executable the full string.h header. Is that valid? Are you really using all of it? For a Desktop application, this makes no sense but for embedded systems, every byte counts.
"You can write using namespace std; and...": No. Do not do this in your code. Check this thread at StackOverflow and do some research about it and why is considered a bad practice.
For the 'string' issue, let me suggest another approach:
// Ctypedefchar*string;stringstr="hello";
As an answer to people who say things like: "C is bad because it doesn't have strings!", consider asking about what they are trying to do. In general, they are complaining about scapegoats.
Hi, I'm Swastik Baranwal, a software developer from New Delhi, India passionate about open-source contribution, Gopher, Pythoneer, Compiler Design and DevOps.
I never said that C has no pointers. I meant C++
std::string
.Actually, the tweet shared by this article said that, as you can see at this link:
twitter.com/ThePracticalDev/status...
About the STD: the C++ Standard Library is a implementation of common useful objects as abstractions. The existence of such thing in C++ doesn't invalidate that C has its own abstractions as I mentioned. I really suggest you to check how C language is constructed and how to implement some basic things such as a basic server with threads, open/read/write files or a basic calculator in C.
I have no intention to offend you but seems like you have no basic notion of how C language works or what is concepts like abstractions and basic data types.
I get what you mean but people complain that they have to use
char chr[]
orchar* chr
for this.There's a big difference between people complaining about something and people being really mindful about knowing the options to it. Compare:
There are more letters to be written in C++ and you are including in your executable the full
string.h
header. Is that valid? Are you really using all of it? For a Desktop application, this makes no sense but for embedded systems, every byte counts.using namespace std;
and...": No. Do not do this in your code. Check this thread at StackOverflow and do some research about it and why is considered a bad practice.For the 'string' issue, let me suggest another approach:
As an answer to people who say things like: "C is bad because it doesn't have strings!", consider asking about what they are trying to do. In general, they are complaining about scapegoats.
Definitely! I really agree with you. I hope Dev deletes/changes their tweet.