Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer

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From: Dirk Dickmanns
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 00:16

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(Raise the dead-thread? That one came up half a year ago?!)

seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes:

>In article <4i862r$1evq@saba.info.ucla.edu>,
>Jay Martin <jmartin@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
...
>>Its common knowledge that C is poorly designed and
>>thus rabid worshipers of C are not too swift.

>Not poorly designed, just designed for different goals and a different
>environment than you're working in.

Neither -- nor: not designed at all. It was a beautiful hack :-)

Couldn't resist,

Dirk
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Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
Date: 15 Mar 96 00:16:43 GMT
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