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From: SLORES@umiami.miami.edu (Stanislaw L. Olejniczak)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: C compilers
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Date: 24 Oct 89 13:56:29 GMT
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In article <6205@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>, toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
> 
> You're both wrong, 'C' is the joke!!!
> 
> (only .5 :-))

I don't want to get into a flame war, so this is _just_ _MY_ opinion:
I think C's being misused.  I think other langauges (Ada, Modula-2
perhaps) are better suited for the mega-lines-of-code projects.  C is very
nice for relatively _small_ programs that can be linked, as in, for
example, **IX.  I think as our understanding of languages increases, we
should see not only that we _can_ do "it" in language "X", but we should
start looking that job "Q" can be done better in lanague "P", or perhaps
even in a mixture of languages.  I fault people (myself included) for
using _one_ language for everything.  Languages are tools, and no one (in
their right mind) tries to unscrew a kitchen sink pipe with a screwdriver!
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