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From: jamiller@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Jim Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Relationship between C and C++
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Date: 22 Mar 90 01:27:02 GMT
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>>Can anyone clue me as to the basis for pointer paranoia?
>
>Programming languages such as Common Lisp and Smalltalk ...


Yes, C is a bad language.  But the better languages that are offered are
not known for their speed.  That is one reason why I prefer to program in C
whenever possible.  Often there are things I need to do which pointers (or
PEEK and POKE in Basic) are the only way to go -- or wait for the language
to be extended and wait and wait :-)

But since C is so bad, why are all you programming in C?  Surely you
can program in your favorite language instead?  Now there are a few
of you out there who are tring to convert us canibals to be civilized,
and I thank you.  But you can't all be missionaries, can you?  If so
then from the traffic on comp.lang.c, there are more missionaries than
us canibals.