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From: jperry@UNIX.SRI.COM.UUCP
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Subject: C programmers machismo
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Date: Wed, 27-May-87 21:37:17 EDT
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    I liked both the humor and the punching power of your diatribe
against the C language.  I know what you mean about the "machismo"
you refer to --- lots of people feel like part of an in-group if
they know an arcane language that provides expressive power to
those who do a two-year daily devotional by practicing even when
they haven't a real program to write (you know, something that
REALLY needs to be done).  
     Also liked your line of sample C code.  And it doesn't
surprise me in the least that it came from an "instructional"
book.  Who's their intended audience --- those who have nothing
better to do with their memory?  


                                             John Perry