C is Brittle D is Plastic

[Araq]

On Wednesday, 1 April 2026 at 16:04:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/30/2026 5:31 AM, matheus wrote:
>> Yes C has it flaws, but it's an older and popular language 
>> even these days. In 90's it was a king among developers and 
>> even today there are project being written with it. It's hard 
>> to compare with more flexible language today, so it's look 
>> like brittle, but at the same time is less complex than newer 
>> languages. Coming from C, sometimes I get lost reading new 
>> languages code and people making simple things more complex.
>
> C is indeed a simple language, but writing higher level code 
> with it is awkward. Especially when one resorts to using the 
> preprocessor for metaprogramming.

Well it's neither particularly simple to implement (is `T*x` a 
declaration or a multiplication?) nor to use (so much UB...) nor 
to read (too bad if the author used the preprocessor 
extensively)... There is nothing "simple" about it; it lacks many 
important features though... If you want simple, look into Forth 
or Scheme or Oberon.