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In article <cg.0aji@ami-cg.UUCP> cg@ami-cg.UUCP (Chris Gray) writes:
>In article <BruEuz.GJJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
>....
>>May I point out that you're not putting down C, you're putting down a
>>PERSON who *uses* C.
>
>That was not my intent.
>
>>>C is one of the unfriendliest languages I've come in contact with, especially
>>>in the ways it is used by far too many people.
>>
>>You know, I always suspected that most of the C bashers in the world
>>hate the language because they aren't posessed of the intellectual
>>capacity to understand how to use it. People who think a for loop in C
>>is confusing, for example. Based on your experience in writing an ANSI C
>>compiler, I see that you are an exception to this rule. ;-)
>
>I'm not sure how I'm supposed to take that!

Take it as meaning your complaints about C have merit, as opposed to the
complaints of those who just can't comprehend the semantics of the
language. The latter is like saying "French sucks as a language because
I can't learn how to speak it." The former is like saying "I am fluent
in both French and English, and I prefer English because..."