Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!ut-sally!smoot From: smoot@ut-sally.UUCP (Smoot Carl-Mitchell) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.lang.c Subject: Re: Improving C Message-ID: <1372@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 10:30:20 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.1372 Posted: Mon Mar 12 10:30:20 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 08:46:13 EST References: <22000002@ucbcad.UUCP> <6855@cornell.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 24 I agree with Hal's comments about people putting down other programming languages. I started out in programming 16 years ago as a Fortran hacker, migrated to Pascal during my years as a graduate student and eventually learned C on my own. Along the way I picked up some Cobol, Lisp, PL/1, Snobol, and APL experience. All the above languages have their strengths and weaknesses. Some of the languages were invented before the field knew very much about compiler and programming language theory and their design reflects the level of knowledge at the time of their invention. Doubtless our knowledge in this area will continue to mature and future languages will be better than what we have now. Every programmer has a "favorite" language. My favorite right now is C and I appreciate its strengths, but I am not so blind as to ignore it's weaknesses. I suggest that before taking potshots at other languages that you investigate the issues involved further before making false or misleading statements. -- Smoot Carl-Mitchell, CS Dept. University of Texas at Austin {seismo, ctvax, ihnp4, kpno}!ut-sally!smoot, smoot@ut-sally.{ARPA, UUCP}