…It’s in the eye of the beholder!

As you should know I am currently ready game programming at De Montfort where one of the first year study modules is C Programming. Now in our first lecture we were told, explicitly, that C is not a pretty language!!

Now coming from a self taught background I believe C is one of the most beautiful languages out there, in terms of a working language. In syntax, the form the language, C is able to express it’s self in a non obtrusive way. By this I mean in C you don’t have to write THEN or END IF, END WHILE, WEND like you do in more basic languages, this means your not forced to treat your complier as some sort of small dog who needs to be told to constantly SIT.

Also in terms of White Space C is very beautiful, in this is the power of ‘;’. You can tab your code however you want, have carries on to new lines so you can compress a very long function call in to a few lines instead of one you’ll spend scrolling across your screen to find out you missed a ‘,’.

Yes is can become ugly but this is not the fault of the language. It is the fault of the lazy ass programmers across the world who would try and write an entire program on one line, they are destroying the for which higher level languages were created; To make code human readable!

These programmers should go back and try and write programs in assembly, then they will see why people want to be able to read the code they write!