> They feel strongly drawn to C's virtues, often explicitly in contrast to other languages
Can someone point me to which set of virtues you are talking about here? Simplicity? Value semantics and imperatives, little abstractions over what the computer OS is actually doing? Manual control over almost everything being done? Are such "virtues" safe and dignifying under an universal context of computer programming? Isn't it a bit dangerous to let such Virtues take over in modern programming dealing with heavy abstraction layers because of the yield in complexity of modern hardware?
Can someone point me to which set of virtues you are talking about here? Simplicity? Value semantics and imperatives, little abstractions over what the computer OS is actually doing? Manual control over almost everything being done? Are such "virtues" safe and dignifying under an universal context of computer programming? Isn't it a bit dangerous to let such Virtues take over in modern programming dealing with heavy abstraction layers because of the yield in complexity of modern hardware?