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>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
>
	You know, I always suspected that most people who claim others
aren't posessed of the intellectual capacity to understand something
they like are not posessed of the intellectual capacity to give
a better thought out argument (or maybe are just short of patience -
I always thought C programmers were too good to make snide remarks)

>Personally, I'd rather be "confused" by a C for loop than be genuinely
>confused at all the bizarre dialects that call themselves Pascal. I can
>port a Borland C program to Unix C or VAX C or even Atari 8-bit C with
>little trouble. The same can *not* be said of a Turbo Pascal program!
>
	Which is a definite plus for those who have jobs that 
require porting. A couple (but not too many) jobs will never 
require porting to other platforms (not commercial programmers
so much as small time "patchers" and people who help companies
keep things running smoothly). I don't use C if it's just a
small prog that will never see anything but an IBM (the custom 
software - I will never port my modem/tsr stuff to a computer that
does communications differently and doesn't need tsrs).

>Face it, ugly spaghetti code can be written in ANY language. Don't try
>to blame the language for a lack of skill on the part of the programmer.
>
	Which means that it doesn't matter if you use Pascal - it's
not the language, it the programmer (many commercial/custom progs
over $10,000 are actually in Basic and COBOL according to my 
catalogs). 
	And most important really in developing software isn't speed
of code but speed of development and ease of maintainance. If you know
all the tricks of a substandard language or are adequate at a better
language, then program in the substandard one.
	But then, these aren't native languages people, these are tools.
Could you imagine if stereo people who liked tweeters put nothing
but in their systems?

	In all fairness to the poster, he didn't rag on pascal
programmers, just on people who rag on C programers.
	C has one big use for all you corporate sweat house programmers -
even if you can't program C, you better be able to read it!

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