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Article #892Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming
From: Ben Williams
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:08
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:08
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In article <1992Dec24.230420.4243@sequent.com> furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes (among other things in an excellant article):
; PASCAL was designed solely
; for the purpose of teaching structured programming as espoused by
; Tom DeMarco, Richard West, et al. C was written in 1969 for the
; express purpose of providing a general purpose Operating Systems
; language that was portable, (spelled UNIX).
;
Yes, isn't it interesting that two of the most popular general purpose
languages for writing applications software were not designed to be used to
write application software. Has anyone written a general purpose language
to do what I would think is the most common use of computer programming -
to write application programs? And if this/these exist, what are they and
how do you rate them? [just curious]
Ben.
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Ben Williams
bew@brahms.udel.edu
What we got here is a failure to communicate...
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Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!udel!news.udel.edu!brahms.udel.edu!bew From: bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams) Subject: Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming Message-ID: <C003EI.H3u@news.udel.edu> Sender: Ben Williams Nntp-Posting-Host: brahms.udel.edu Organization: University of Delaware References: <1992Dec23.220530.15347@netcom.com> <1992Dec24.154204.25248@blkbox> <1992Dec24.230420.4243@sequent.com> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:08:42 GMT Lines: 23