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> What is this wonderful "power" which C is giving me, which requires
> me to live with all the pitfalls?

There are only two languages I know of in which you can take a moderately
complex program and run it, without modification, on a wide variety of
platforms.

One is Fortran, with the Software Tools library.
The other is C.

Which would you rather use?

How much of this is due to historical inertia, how much features of the
language, and how much self-fulfilling prophecy isn't really relevant. When
I can take a 10 year old screen-oriented program written for Version 7 UNIX
and run it on an IBM-PC under MS-DOS, then take the same source and compile
and run it under both System V and BSD UNIX, it's going to take more than
theoretical arguments about safety to make me change. It's going to take
working code.

For what other language can I get compatible compilers for:

	UNIX
	IBM-PC
	Amiga
	Atari ST
	Macintosh
	RSX-11/M
	VAX/VMS
	RMX-86

The only other language system that came close was UCSD Pascal, and it's dead.
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