Comments by "Toby" (@toby9999) on "C in 100 Seconds" video.

@gamerk316 Not sure about you but I loved the 68000 architecture. It was so elegant compared to the x86 stuff. I've been fortunate to have been working with C and C++ for 25 years but now being pushed into the Java world, I'm hating it.
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@Lambda_Ovine That doesn't really make sense. C++ fundamentals are in a way very similar to C. I often write C++ code as if it was C i.e. using a procedural style and only using the more advanced features of C++ as needed. So I struggle to understand how you can love C while hating a C like language that provides you with so many extra useful but optional features?
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@LuvxJacqu4li8e Python cannot replace C.
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Pointers get an undeserved bad rap from people who simply don't like them or are unable to understand them. Coming from an Assembler background, the purposes and advantages of pointer types seems obvious and intuitive.
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@philosophyze I've been using C for 40 years and haven't found much to complain about.
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@purple.requiem All of that extra C++ stuff like STL containers snd streams are relatively heavy but unless you're going for maximum performance, it likely won't matter and it will still outperform most other languages.
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In other words programmer error.
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@timoteiNitrogen A lot of that can be ignored. A lot of the code I work on is C legacy code converted to C++. No smart pointers. Very little STL stuff. It all works. I've never found a need for lambdas or a lot of the newer features.
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