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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Question Re: Configuration Management
Message-ID: <34588UH2@PSUVM>
Date: 25 Feb 88 14:16:54 GMT
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In article <3a7488cf.fed5@apollo.uucp>, marc@apollo.uucp (Marc Gibian) says:
>
>c is a good language for many projects.  But it tends to get into trouble
>as the size of a project grows.  There have been many fine articles on
>this subject and I do not intend to write my own here.  I simply want
>to point out that there are many projects out there using c that
>probably should be using some other language.  And this results in
>a great deal of agony for the engineers working on these projects.
>

SAS is a million lines of source, and is written in C, though I believe
it is a traslation from the original PL/1.  They must have some extra
tools they use--are they homebrew or commercial?