Why do you like C more than other programming languages?

[istillshine]

There are many languages around: C++, JAVA, PASCAL, and so on. I
tried to learn C++ and JAVA, but ended up criticizing them. Is it
because C was my first programming language?

I like C because, comparatively, it is small, efficient, and able to
handle large and complex tasks.

I could not understand why people are using and talking about other
programming languages.

[jacob navia]

Richard Bos wrote:

jacob navia <ja***@nospam.comwrote:

>Richard Bos wrote:

>>jacob navia <ja***@nospam.comwrote:

Another BIG application of operator overloading is access to generalized
containers using the [ ] notation

String a; // "String" is a counted character string

a[2] = 'b'; // overloaded operator [ ]
Yes, that's another way in which operator overloading can become
confusing. For example, now *(a+2) is no longer the same as a[2].
*Bang* goes the use of pointers. Bad, baaad idea.

If you overload the addition operator for String + integer
you can return a ppointer to the third character of the
data of the string. Then
*(a+2) = 'b';

is exactly the same as you would have with a pointer...

Now tell me, what does *(a+0) contain?
The first byte of a?

No.

Or the first character in a's string?

Yes.

In the first case, your implementation is
broken; in the second case, it's broken in a different way.

It is not "broken" in any way.

>*Bang* goes your objection. Good, gooood idea.

There's this document called the "ISO/IEC International Standard;
Programming languages - C". It contains some interesting information
about what you can and cannot do with a C implementation. You might like
to read it some day.

Structure '+' integer is not defined in the language.
This invokes UB, then lcc-win can do anything, for
example call a user defined function for this purpose.
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