Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!decwrl!rhea!vaxuum!dyer From: dyer@vaxuum.DEC (Where's the falafel?) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: To C or not to C... Message-ID: <6313@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 13:35:43 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.6313 Posted: Mon Mar 19 13:35:43 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Mar-84 01:36:02 EST Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 26 The following is reprinted from SIGPLAN Notices, December 1983. It was written by Wes Munsil during discussions on the topic of whether Pascal or C should be used in a project. Use C, or not use C, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The flags and warnings of a rude compiler, Or to take arms against a sea of errors, And by debugging, fix them? To code, to hack, No more; and by a hack to say we end The type-check and the thousand other checks Pascal is heir to, 'tis a compilation Devoutly to be wish'd. To code, to hack; To hack! perchance to test: ay, there's the rub; For in that hacker's bliss what bugs may come, When we have written out this awful code, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes development of such long life. Enjoy! <_Jym_> | Jym Dyer | Nashua, New Hampshire | ...decvax!decwrl!rhea!vaxuum!dyer | Mon 19-Mar-1984 13:42 Zen (not EST!) Time