Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!nick From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Relationship between C and C++ Message-ID: <2939@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 20 Mar 90 12:10:05 GMT References: <8432@hubcap.clemson.edu> <5200048@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <2605a117.396e@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: Jenny Agutter Appreciation Society of Edinburgh Lines: 32 In-reply-to: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) In article <2605a117.396e@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, jdudeck@polyslo (John R. Dudeck) writes: >I really think that those who are opposed to C, pointers, and all that >goes with it, are more motivated by a desire to have programming done >by grunt laborers in a DP shop environment, Wrong wrong wrong. I'm opposed to C, pointers, and all that goes with it, because there are much better languages in the world for most of the things I (and other people, I suspect) want to do, and I'm fed up with all this argument over a brain-dead low-level 20-year-old language. Give me ML, some other functional language, maybe Scheme, maybe even Eiffel, Quest, Amber, or whatever, but leave out the C. >Those who like >C are more of the craftsman type that like to produce finely wrought >masterpieces. Are you serious? >Of course this is just my point of view... And this is mine. >John Dudeck Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ A prop? ...or wings? A prop? ...or wings? A prop?