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From: dyer@vaxuum.DEC (Where's the falafel?)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: C Bigotry
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Date: Wed, 14-Mar-84 10:45:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 14 10:45:19 1984
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elopment and relearning time because your systems
programmers don't need to code in assembly language.
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	C was created for systems programming without assembly language,
as most of us should know.  Extensions to the language with libraries,
etc., have made it a very good applications language.  A language that
can handle systems and applications is bound to invite the ravings of
bigots!
	Another part of this is the conception that C is "not for be-
ginners".  This is a good ego boost for C programmers, even if they
aren't systems programmers.  Thus, the scornful flames can be expected.
		<_Jym_>

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