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I'm not sure I entirely agree with that view 8) but its utility and closeness to the metal gave it wings, especially in the early days of desktop computing when efficiency was very important, and once such systems become ubiquitous then one tends to get stuck with them.
See COBOL and indeed FORTRAN (never mind MS Word which is as unlike a word processor as it is possible to get whilst still handling text) for further examples...
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I thought that might get a reaction.
But, my opinion still stands.
In the bad old days of 8086 through to at least 80386, you were much better off learning assembler.
Once Windows became ubiquitous, things got more difficult, but by then, we **should** have had better languages available than C and it's derivatives.
The few that were viable seem to have been killed off by the C people to protect their their pet little ecosystem
(But that does sound a bit like a conspiracy theory)
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Member 14564709 wrote: C, in all it's variants (and that includes JAVA and RUST) is an abomination.
It should never have survived as long as it has.
PHP - wasn't intended to be a programming language in the first place.
Using the tiobe index and excluding that then removing all of the other languages that did originate with C one gets down to Basic, SQL and Fortran.
Member 14564709 wrote: between the horror of Fortran and the "New" languages that were just around the corner.
But it doesn't exist. People create a lot of new programming languages every year. And very few are ever generally accepted. So what you are suggesting will not or cannot exist.
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C++ plus Qt/QML do the job just perfect w/o performance compromises
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Joe Walsh, Life's Been Good To Me So Far
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No, I am NOT posting programming question , the post is clearly marked as "rant".
The unnamed site , to protect the guilty , rejected the attached code as " poorly formatted".
until I deleted #ifdef ...,#endif. Then it passed.
I am a believer that Alan Cooper was right when he stated that coders will take the path of least resistance / use less brain , when coding.
(Not to be confused with KISS...)
Apparently adding " post it anyway , WE can make an exception " would indirectly indicate that
the code is void of better analysis, hence more code / brain usage would be required.
void SettingsDialog::closeEvent( QCloseEvent* event )
{
#ifdef RETILE
text = "\t#i#ifdef RETILE \n";
text += "TRACE START Retile mdiArea subwindows .... ";
text += " ";
text += Q_FUNC_INFO;
text += QString::number(__LINE__);
qDebug().noquote() << text;
#endif
text += " ";
text += "\n\t test send text to child";
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You could have simply indented the # lines instead of deleting them. Hashdent is bad formatting in my opinion.
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The fact that AI rejected your post demonstrates that AI is not completely devoid of real intelligence.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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you forgot to highlight "your"
other than that - nothing new , just another version of saloon put-down
" ... verrry interesting , but stupid " - end of quote
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Hmm, I know I saw this somewhere....
Quote: if you cannot say something nice , DO NOT SAY ANYTHING AT ALL
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I know it as:
Quote: If what you have to say is not more beautiful than silence... shut the fvck up
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Salvatore Terress wrote: text = "\t#i#ifdef RETILE \n";
I would suspect more that it has some auto-formatting code which did not like the above line inside the other block.
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Patient: "OK...er... give me the good news"
Doctor: "you have a fatal cancer and have 24 hours to live"
Patient: "Doc, if that's the GOOD NEWS, what's the BAD news?"
Doctor: "I should have called you yesterday"
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Further:
Patient: I am already dead. This is my ghost speaking.
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I think I have submitted this one but here it is
Man goes into hospital with with a bad leg.
Dr: "That looks bad. Time to go to Surgery."
After surgery, patient asks "How did it go?"
Dr: "I have some bad news and some good news."
Patient: "What's the good news?"
Dr: "The leg is getting better."
Patient: What's the bad news?"
Dr: "We cut off the wrong leg."
Grrrr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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The classic version in Norway goes:
"I have some bad news and some good news for you.
We were supposed to remove your left leg.
But we made a mistake, removing your right leg,
and we had to remove the left leg afterwards.
We are sorry, but you have no legs any more.
But there are some good news:
The guy in the next bed wants to buy your slippers."
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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lol 
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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The doctor gave me six months to live. I didn't pay him, so he gave me another six months.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Rodney Dangerfield?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I don't remember where I first heard it, but it isn't original with me.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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an oldie but a goodie
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Too close to home for me.
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