What is C suitable for nowadays?

[Malcolm McLean]

Re: What is C suitable for nowadays?

"Richard Heathfield" <rjh@see.sig.in validwrote in message

>

>I am just considering learning others.

>
Excellent idea. You may discover a new favourite, a language you like
better than C. And if not, at least you may learn some insights which
will inform your C programming. So you can't lose.
>

Except there are too many languages doing similar things. People mentioned
Oberon and Python, for instance.

I use Perl for trivial scripts to drive my C programs, rather than hardcode
all the directory paths. The other day I had to ask my friend what
"continue" was in Perl. It turns out it is "next". Just a little detail, but
the sort of niggling inefficiency that means that nothing ever gets done in
time.

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Re: What is C suitable for nowadays?

Malcolm McLean wrote:

"Matthew Zhou" <zhouyan1986@gm ail.comwrote in message

But I do not know where to get some real world practicing. And also
I have no idea what should I practice more than others. I think I
should practice more for the field what C is good for. Of course, I
will practice more for the part which is harder, such as pointers
and arrays.

You learn by writing real programs. In your situation, a real program
is probably a game. Unfortunately most games cannot be programmed in
pure ANSI C because of the lack of graphics.

Unless you go with a text-adventure game.




Brian