Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!sagpd1!jharkins
From: jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested
Message-ID: <673@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 90 17:23:11 GMT
References: <159@uninet.vbo.dec.com>
Reply-To: jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins)
Organization: Scientific Atlanta, Government Products Div, San Diego, CA
Lines: 16

In article <159@uninet.vbo.dec.com> vanavermaet@kerber.dec.com writes:
>In article <1819@awdprime.UUCP>, jaws@chibacity.austin.ibm.com writes...
>>This kind flexiability is what makes C so powerfull, and dangerous. 
>>You have know what you are doing to do it.
>
>I think this is a very sensible remark.

I think the best way I've heard this put is "Pascal gives you a water pistol
filled with distilled water.  C not only gives you a loaded .357, it points
it at your head as a default.  Why do you think Pascal is taught in school?
And which would you rather have when there was a hungry bear in the area?"

-- 
jim		jharkins@sagpd1

"My son beat up the Citizen of the Month at Gage elementry school."