Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C critisisms
Message-ID: <6938@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 6 Jan 88 03:04:55 GMT
References: <11075@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <11075@brl-adm.ARPA> V4039%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Stan Horwitz) writes:
>... I find the whole language very strange ...

What one thinks things "should" be like is heavily influenced by one's
past experience.  You may already realize this, but an amazing number
of people don't -- witness the recurrent "editor wars", "VMS vs. UNIX"
debates, etc.  C doesn't seem that strange to BCPL or experienced C
programmers..  Now, that Pascal, man -- that's a strange language! :-)

>Was the name C the result of a night of heavy drinking or what?

I think they were going to call it "Pussy Galore", but discovered that
Ian Fleming had already appropriated that name.