Re: JLG's flogging of horses (was Re: Relationship between C and C++)

Article View: comp.lang.misc

Article #1121

#1121

From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 1990 17:56

10 lines
876 bytes

One of the reasons C is so popular is that (like Pascal) it's designed to be
easy to implement on a wide class of machines (basically, non-segmented
byte-addressible machines) which happen to be very common (for example, any
personal computer you can name). This "pandering to poor implementors" is
one of it's strengths... not one of it's weaknesses.
-- 
 _--_|\  `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. <peter@ficc.uu.net>.
/      \  'U`
\_.--._/
      v

Technical Details

Message-ID: <TZR2HG4xds13@ficc.uu.net>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter

References: <16400@haddock.ima.isc.com> <14307@lambda.UUCP>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: JLG's flogging of horses (was Re: Relationship between C and C++)
Message-ID: <TZR2HG4xds13@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 7 Apr 90 17:56:48 GMT
References: <16400@haddock.ima.isc.com> <14307@lambda.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
Lines: 5

Reply to Parent Message