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Article #898Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming
From: John William Chambless
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:07
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:07
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In article <1992Dec29.120344.13694@netcom.com> erc@netcom.com (Eric Smith) writes: > >By general purpose, you mean to exclude SQL, APL, Yacc, Awk, etc., right? > >When programmers invent new programming languages to write application >programs, the application programs they have in mind are usually those >they have done in the past and/or those they are doing at the time. For >that reason, a really general purpose language has to be invented by >hundreds of programmers. That means it has to evolve over a number of >years before it will be really general. Thus C++ etc. When you mention a "general purpose" language designed by hundreds of programmers, I think of ADA .... and my reaction is: AAAAAAARrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhh! Thank you very much, but no, C is just fine for me. Really. -- * Billy Chambless University of Southern Mississippi, USA * chambles@whale.st.usm.edu *
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Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!nntp.msstate.edu!whale.st.usm.edu!chambles From: chambles@whale.st.usm.edu (John William Chambless) Subject: Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming Message-ID: <1992Dec29.150728.18195@ra.msstate.edu> Sender: news@ra.msstate.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: whale.st.usm.edu Organization: University of Southern Mississippi References: <1992Dec24.230420.4243@sequent.com> <C003EI.H3u@news.udel.edu> <1992Dec29.120344.13694@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:07:28 GMT Lines: 22