Richard Clark wrote:

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programmer. Besides, C is a pretty crummy language with even more
horrid library syntaxes (assembler is far more elegant).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

A lot of people like to think themselves programmers, real programmers
use C/C++. (Weekend programmers use visual basic)

C is simply a macro language which calls assembler procedures and
functions--Dennis Richie was a real assembly language programmer, he
simply designed a "shorthand" language for using assembler--C itself was
written in assembler--nowadays C can compile and link itself ... a real
C programmer will add to the C libraries and include files using
assembler definitions, procedures and functions. While every subroutine
of a C program is a function, they can be written as procedures which
are only cloaked as functions. Example:

#include iostream

void helloworldprocedure(void)
{
cout "hello world!" endl;
}

void main(void)
{
helloworldprocedure();
}

.... takes no parameters, returns none ...

I think most C programmers prefer to program in assembly (but with
windows allowing NO direct access of devices, peripherals, memory or
disk--why bother, assembly can only be used as a wrapper to call windows
libs/dlls/activex/scripts/etc., or custom ones--linux can be made to
allow direct access), however, C adds a productivity factor of
magnitudes over assembly.

No other language offers the efficiency of program "character text"
(source code) to actual binary code compiled/linked by C. Indeed, any C
compiler I have ever seen gives a option to spit out assembler source
.... and the assembler source so generated is quite capable of being
assembled/linked by an assembler/linker for the platform in question.

C simply has no rules which cannot be broken, even if it breaks all
programming rules, and you want to override them, go ahead! (bill gates
won't let you break windows rules though :-( )--C is only structured if
you program in a structured style. For that reason alone, it is not a
good language for newbie programmers ...

JS