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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Excerpts from "The C Programming Language" (Re: C bashing)
Message-ID: <3097@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 29 May 90 03:11:55 GMT
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In article <791@sagpd1.UUCP>, jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) writes:
> Why do these
> ADA/C/Pascal flame wars always crop up here?  Do we go into the ADA group and
> flame their language?

Yes.

> I don't, I don't even subscribe to the damn thing.

I do subscribe.  There's probably more bashing of Ada by C bigots than
there is C bashing by Ada lovers, proportionally.

> Why don't they stay where they belong and leave us real programmers alone?

This is the net.  Mac/PC/ST/Amiga wars, UNIX/VMS/OS2/... wars, my language
is better than your language, it's not just argument, it's a way of life.
-- 
"A 7th class of programs, correct in every way, is believed to exist by a
few computer scientists.  However, no example could be found to include here."