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DonHopkins 4 hours ago

Nothing is sane in a language that lets you say 4["Foo!"]

Array indexing in C is just pointer arithmetic wearing Groucho Marx Glasses.

C combines the flexibility and power of assembly language with the user-friendliness of assembly language.

jstimpfle 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Nothing is sane in a language that lets you say 4["Foo!"]

I just had a look at your HN profile page and was struck by the irony of seeing your Forth vs Lisp vs Postscript code examples there. Now consider that I've never written code like 4["Foo!"], even though I know it's possible, but in other languages you constantly have to do mental gymnastics to get any real work done, and those are allegedly so much saner !???

DonHopkins an hour ago | parent [-]

When they were handing out brains, I though they said suᴉɐɹq, and I said "180 rotate".