[Info-vax] Rust as a HS language, was: Re: Quiet?

[chris]

On 04/07/22 15:44, Dan Cross wrote:

>>
>> I wasn't suggesting that, but it takes years for all the issues
>> to be resolved and a language to become mature. That and the
>> language tends to be more fully documented formally. Sure, there
>> are always issues, but C has been around for long enough now that
>> most skilled users are to grips with the limitations and know
>> which potentially dangerous edge cases to avoid...
>
> That's demonstrably not true.  C has become a tricky language,
> one where most people who claim to be "skilled C programmers"
> and who "know which potentially dangerous edge cases to avoid"
> are either compiler writers, or deluding themselves.
>
> PS: Rust will be 12 years old this year, but dates back to 2006.
>
> 	- Dan C.
>

Sorry, but that's absolute tripe. With minor effort, can still
build C code I wrote as far back as 1990, so it's about as
standard plain vanilla as any language could be.

The basic idea of a language as close as possible to the bare
metal, yet with enough capability for serious high level work,
with layered design, is as close to an ideal language as
anyone could wish for. Tricky language indeed ?, rofl...

Chris