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You don't need speed, but you want to write in a language, which is closest to assembly? Hmm. Interesting view on what is simple.


Maybe we mean different things by the word "simple". What language do you think is simpler than C?


Scheme, ML, Java, Lua...


Yeah, we must have different definitions of simplicity, as I expected.

Just off the top of my head, Java has the following complexities that C lacks: exceptions, garbage collection, class inheritance, generics, and a very large standard library.

What definition of simplicity are you using when you say Java is simpler than C?




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