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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
Message-ID: <10951@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 11 Oct 89 05:55:33 GMT
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Reply-To: diamond@riks. (Norman Diamond)
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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In article <4147@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> jnh@ecemwl.UUCP (Joseph N. Hall) writes:

>>I certainly hope "Consumer Reports" never rates programming languages ...

Actually they might some day.  But Mac and Next stuff are the first
sorts of things that are capable of Consumer Reports misrating.

In article <229@bbxsda.UUCP> scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes:

>Allow me :-)
>...
>Well, there was FORTRAN, COBOL, and PL/1.  Now there is a new kid on the
>block, 'C'.  How does 'C' measure up to it's bigger brothers?

Well, C is not quite the new kid on the block.  Fortran's around 33
years old or so, and Cobol is in the same vicinity.  C is only 19, so
it is a younger brother, but it's not a kid.  (Except in some ways.)

-- 
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