Re: C help please - C newbie

Sorry I can't help with the original question, I have a question of my own.

You may laugh at the next bit but....

In 1982 in had a BBC micro (people in the UK will know what I mean).

I played with it for ages and could write in BBC basic pretty much what I
wanted, if I needed more speed I just dropped in to assembler BBC basic
would let you do that.

I could talk down the serial bus, centronics etc. bus with absolute ease.

Then I thought I'd try some other languages such as Forth and C.

C amazed me. I looked 20 years out of date 20 years ago. The syntax looks
to the untrained eye like somebody's tried to press as many shifted character
keys as possible i.e. $%& etc. And it was so slow in comparison to what I
been used to. I seems to me you have to include so much junk to do a
simple job like talk to the serial port your programme ended up being
bigger than the BBC Basic interpreter just to do 1 simple thing.

Surly by now there must be something better because its look to me like
there have been no advances in programming since 1982. If anything it
looks worse. Is this why so much modern software is in all honesty, junk,
is it written in C.