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From: sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
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Subject: Re: How to pay for reusable software
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Date: 16 Apr 91 12:35:27 GMT
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In article <12676@pucc.Princeton.EDU> EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:

(Sorry, I am commenting on a small side issue of the long article.)

>There is a refreshing consensus right now on the value of C as a
>programming language, but even C is not The Language of the Gods.

What consensus?  If I have an approximately correct picture of
American school grading, perhaps the name of the language is well chosen.
And I think C is really more suited for Gods (and daemons) to program in
than humans.

Markku Sakkinen
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
PL 35
SF-40351 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland
          SAKKINEN@FINJYU.bitnet (alternative network address)