Unfortunately C has a huge corpus of utterly wrong examples, bad tutorials, bad teachers, etc. that new people learn to do these things from
This is false. You can obviously implement an interp for a trivial lang without breaking the rule & use that as intermediary.
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If you had to implement a separate interpreter you just proved my point.
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That's just an existence proof not an optimality one. :-)
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There's no fundamental reason a C compiler has to be written using any sort of OOP.
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My main point here is, maybe C-with-restrictions is a good language. It's not how anyone uses C today, so less relevant to evaluate C.
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Language should serve the real humans working today, with their culture and current knowledge base. If those two doesn't work - problems.
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"If you follow rules, there won't be bugs" needs empirical evidence those rules are easy enough to follow in large project by average humans
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Automation will replace the majority of programmers. Making programming easy for "average humans" is a non-goal.
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"Average human who are in the programmers workforce". Limiting candidate to work on prj to top 0.1%, or req 10yr self ed means bad tool.
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