Xref: utzoo comp.software-eng:3031 comp.lang.c:26514 comp.lang.misc:4322 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsl!clyde!feg From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke,2C-119,7239,ATTBL) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language Message-ID: <4397@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> Date: 2 Mar 90 13:40:19 GMT References: <6960@internal.Apple.COM> <259@eiffel.UUCP> <1990Mar1.172526.28683@utzoo.uucp> Sender: nntp@cbnewsl.ATT.COM Reply-To: feg@clyde.ATT.COM Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 19 In article <1990Mar1.172526.28683@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > > There are enough real problems with C and C++ without making up silly > strawmen. > > (P.S. They remain eminently usable languages for people who know what > they're doing, although incompetents and novices should definitely > avoid them. Alas, all too many of the "real programs" in the world are > written by incompetents and novices...) While I agree 100% with everything you said in this article in support of the modern C language, aren't you being a little contradictory in your postscript? Unless you anticipated Dennis Ritchie, one day you too were a novice in C. Fortunately you didn't avoid it. (;-)) Forrest Gehrke feg@clyde.ATT.COM