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by c_crank
1070 days ago
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Writing C code is fun and enjoyable. C programs are typically fast due to the use of primitives and low overhead. C's set of tools and abstractions typically forces you to think about how best to implement a particular data structure or interface, which is the kind of problem I most enjoy. >I used to think "C presents the most honest representation of the low-level mechanisms of the computer", but... even this is shaky. I've been programming for almost 15 years now, and I don't think I've ever seen a computer where memory is actually a continuous array of bits sorted by memory address. The C representation of memory (and all the pointer arithmetic) is not a real representation of your hardware, and this too is an abstraction. Pointers are an abstraction, but they are less abstract than most languages simply assuming there is just one giant sheet of memory to take from. |
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