Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: JLG's flogging of horses (was Re: Relationship between C and C++) Message-ID: Date: 7 Apr 90 17:56:48 GMT References: <16400@haddock.ima.isc.com> <14307@lambda.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 5 One of the reasons C is so popular is that (like Pascal) it's designed to be easy to implement on a wide class of machines (basically, non-segmented byte-addressible machines) which happen to be very common (for example, any personal computer you can name). This "pandering to poor implementors" is one of it's strengths... not one of it's weaknesses. -- _--_|\ `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ 'U` \_.--._/ v