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From: cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (carl m benda)
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Subject: Re: Any reasons for using C on a PC (is it the fastest thing around?)?
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Date: Thu, 16-Apr-87 08:57:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 16 08:57:44 1987
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Organization: Univ. of NC at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
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Summary: all over the eastern seaboard..

In article <3180@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mic@lapis.berkeley.edu (Michel Bruneau) writes:
> ALSO:  I am asking the people in the other parts of this country:
> Is C something used a lot (not just in california I hope) or is it
> just another fad language that will be completely gone two years 
> from now.....

Well Michel.. C is not just another fad language, it so happens that more
advances in the knowledge of compilers and compiler tools have been made
as a result of the existence of the C programming language, than any other
single entity.

It may well be that C is greatly used (in more ways than one) in California,
but lets remember that it was developed in part by New Jersey based Bell
Laboratories.  The functional utility of the language is inherently part
of its design and evolution from B, etc.. That plus the fact that C remains
the most portable of all source code, even when the code is ported across
differing operating systems and differing architectures..

Hopefully this will quell(sp) your fears about using the C language for 
application programming. This language, beyond all others has the most
hope of survival.
/Carl